Frontmatter -- Section 1. The Negotiations leading to the Pact -- The Forming of the Atlantic Pact: Some Problems of Interpretation / DI NOLFO, ENNIO -- The First Stage of Negotiations: December 1947 to June 1948 / VARSORI, ANTONIO -- The Final Stage of Negotiations: December 1948 to April 1949 / BARIÉ, OTTAVIO -- Section 2. The Attitudes of the Countries Involved -- The Atlantic Pact as a Problem of U.S. Diplomacy / SMITH, GADDIS -- Great Britain and the Atlantic Pact / OVENDALE, RITCHIE -- France and the Origins of the Atlantic Pact / BAGNATO, BRUNA -- The Other "German Question". The Foundation of the Atlantic Pact and the Problem of Security against Germany / WIGGERSHAUS, NORBERT -- Nordic Union or Western Alliance? Scandinavia at the Crossroads 1948-1949 / RISTE, OLAV -- The Origins of Western Defense. Belgian and Dutch Perspectives 1940-1949 / WIEBES, CIES / ZEEMAN, BERT -- The Eastern European Countries and the Birth of the Atlantic Alliance / BOCZEK, BOLESLAW ADAM -- Defense or Liberation of Europe. The Strategies of the West against a Soviet Attack (1947-1950) / LEONARDIS, MASSIMO DE -- Section 3. Italy and the Atlantic Pact -- De Gasperi, the Christian Democrats and the Atlantic Treaty / PASTORELLI, PIETRO -- The Italian Left and the Atlantic Pact: The Nation vs. Proletarian Internationalism / GALANTE, SEVERINO -- The Italian Military and the Atlantic Pact / NUTI, LEOPOLDO -- The Authors -- Index of Names -- Backmatter