@book {3488,
	title = {Turkey - Anglo-American Security Interests, 1945-1952; The First Enlargement of NATO},
	year = {2012},
	pages = {288},
	publisher = {Routledge},
	organization = {Routledge},
	edition = {Second (paperback)},
	address = {London},
	abstract = {The first enlargement of NATO in 1952, to include Turkey and Greece, integrated the eastern Mediterranean with West European strategic planning and consolidated US presence in the area. Today, Turkey{\textquoteright}s inclusion in the North Antlantic Treaty Organisation seems natural, given Soviet pressures against the country in 1945-1946 and its geostrategic position. Yet, in the early post-Cold War period this was not a foregone conclusion in the minds of policy-makers in Washington and particularly, in London, despite Ankara{\textquoteright}s relentless efforts after 1947 to obtain an American security guarantee.\&nbsp;<br>\&nbsp; This first book-lenght study of the background to Turkey{\textquoteright}s accession to NATO provides us with a better understanding of a neglected chapter in the history of the early Cold War. The book offers a detailed analysis of how American and British security considerations in the eastern Mediterranean evolved, sometimes in parallel, sometimes in a rival fashion, bewteen 1945 and 1952 against the backdrop of the Turks{\textquoteright} diplomatic pressure for a US military commitment. I addition, it provides an in-depth look into the fundamental tenets of Turkish foreign policy, which, it is argued, remained the same throughtout the first 30 years of the life of the Turkish republic. <br>\&nbsp;},
	url = {http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415642187/},
	author = {EKAVI ATHANASSOPOULOU}
}
