An Organized Controversy:
a history of NATO since 1949

Book manuscript in preparation

Since its founding in the late 1940s, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has been integral to the shape and evolution of international politics. An Organized Controversy offers a new history of the Atlantic Alliance from the 1940s to the present, one that considers NATO as an alliance, as a bureaucracy, and as a subject of considerable debate about how international affairs ought to be ordered.

To tell this history, I revisit familiar themes and consider oft-overlooked episodes from the Alliance’s past seven decades. Major questions of political and military strategy appear alongside the day-to-day issues that preoccupied much of the Alliance machinery, including public messaging, bureaucratic wrangling, and – of course – countless meetings.

An Organized Controversy relies on rich international archival research, in member states both large and small, along with contemporary press reporting and an array of interviews.

I am always looking to speak with people who’ve worked in the NATO bureaucracy, both in Brussels and beyond, and worked NATO policy/issues in various member governments.

If you would be willing to speak with me, please reach out via email.