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The 25 pages that link to North Atlantic Treaty Organization, each with the reason it gives.

• Non-Aligned MovementCompared with: This Western alliance was the other principal bloc against which non-alignment defined itself.

• Dwight D. EisenhowerRelated: As NATO’s first Supreme Allied Commander Europe, Eisenhower helped establish its command structure.

• Russian invasion of UkraineNarrower topic: NATO members have supported Ukraine while avoiding direct entry into the war.

• Warsaw PactCompared with: NATO’s expansion to include West Germany in 1955 prompted the Soviet Union to establish the Pact.

• Clement AttleeRelated: Attlee’s government joined Britain to the new alliance during the early Cold War.

• George C. MarshallRelated: Marshall as Secretary of State signed the treaty that gave the recovery program a military anchor.

• IsolationismCompared with: Its permanent mutual-defense commitment sharply departed from avoiding peacetime alliances.

• United States foreign policyRelated: It institutionalizes the United States' security commitment to Europe and North America.

• North Atlantic OceanRelated: Its name and founding membership reflect the political ties spanning the ocean.

• European Defence CommunityRelated: West Germany joined NATO after the community’s rejection, anchoring its rearmament in the Atlantic alliance.

• George F. KennanRelated: NATO became a durable institutional expression of the containment strategy Kennan helped inspire.

• IntergovernmentalismBroader topic: Member governments retain authority over alliance commitments and major decisions.

• Liberal internationalismBroader topic: It shows how liberal internationalism has relied on alliances as well as civilian institutions.

• North Atlantic TreatyBroader topic: The treaty established this organization as the institutional home of the alliance.

• Japan–United States Security TreatyCompared with: NATO’s multilateral command and membership differ from the U.S.–Japan treaty system.

• Dean AchesonRelated: Acheson was a central U.S. advocate for the treaty that established the alliance.

• Paul-Henri SpaakBroader topic: Spaak helped secure Belgian participation in the alliance and later served as its secretary-general.

• Baghdad PactCompared with: Unlike NATO, the Baghdad Pact lacked a comparable binding collective-defense guarantee.

• Organization for Security and Co-operation in EuropeCompared with: Unlike NATO, the OSCE includes states across opposing security alignments and has no collective-defense clause.

• Russian Armed ForcesCompared with: NATO is the central collective-defense alliance against which Russian security policy often defines itself.

• Shanghai Cooperation OrganisationCompared with: The SCO is often compared with NATO, but it lacks NATO’s mutual-defense obligation.

• United Nations Emergency ForceCompared with: Unlike NATO, UNEF was a consent-based UN buffer force, not a collective-defense alliance.

• Nicholas SpykmanRelated: The alliance’s position along Eurasia’s western edge echoes the strategic importance Spykman assigned to coastal regions.

• Alexandros PapagosRelated: Papagos’s government continued Greece’s alignment with NATO during the Cold War.

• Fulda GapRelated: NATO organized the Western defense whose plans treated the corridor as a potential approach.