The United States, the United Nations, and the Future of the Nation-State
It is certainly true that nothing has more effectively kept thepeace in Europe than NATO; and even if NATO is now destined fordestruction, it is probably a healthier state of affairs whenalliances and treaties can both live and die in response to theshifting interests of the nations than when a treaty isimmortalized and inoculated against change, like the Charter andConventions of the U.N.