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The Warsaw Pact: Institutional Dynamics within the Socialist Commonwealth

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2017

Abstract

Established in 1955 as a result of the Soviet effort to prevent West German rearmament through the Western European Union and to some extent as a counter to NATO’S decision to develop tactical nuclear weapons, the Warsaw Treaty Organization, more commonly known as the Warsaw Pact, stands as a multilateral political-military organization and the only example of such a regional defense alliance within the Eastern bloc. It was heralded by Moscow as the “main center” for coordinating the foreign policy of Communist states in Europe.

Type
The Future of the “Socialist Commonwealth”: Prospects for Legal and Institutional Developments in Relations Among the Communist States
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of International Law 1973

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology.