I-VIII -- Section 1. The Negotiations leading to the Pact -- The Forming of the Atlantic Pact: Some Problems of Interpretation -- The First Stage of Negotiations: December 1947 to June 1948 -- The Final Stage of Negotiations: December 1948 to April 1949 -- Section 2. The Attitudes of the Countries Involved -- The Atlantic Pact as a Problem of U.S. Diplomacy -- Great Britain and the Atlantic Pact -- France and the Origins of the Atlantic Pact -- The Other “German Question”. The Foundation of the Atlantic Pact and the Problem of Security against Germany -- Nordic Union or Western Alliance? Scandinavia at the Crossroads 1948–1949 -- The Origins of Western Defense. Belgian and Dutch Perspectives 1940–1949 -- The Eastern European Countries and the Birth of the Atlantic Alliance -- Defense or Liberation of Europe. The Strategies of the West against a Soviet Attack (1947–1950) -- Section 3. Italy and the Atlantic Pact -- De Gasperi, the Christian Democrats and the Atlantic Treaty -- The Italian Left and the Atlantic Pact: The Nation vs. Proletarian Internationalism -- The Italian Military and the Atlantic Pact -- The Authors -- Index of Names -- 269-272