The international landscape is barely recognizable compared with that of 1949 when the alliance was founded to safeguard the fragile democracies of a shattered post-war Western Europe.
The Geneva-based United Nations Economic Commission for Europe was set up in 1947 to co-ordinate reconstruction in shattered post-war Europe.
This is the cold war, fought against the Soviet Union and played out against the backdrop of shattered post-war European societies vulnerable to the utopian chimera of Communism.
Adrian Lester is a fine actor, but, aside from a single moment of shattered post-Harfleur relief, he is scarcely ever allowed to give us a hint of the king's residual humanity.
He's made dystopian industrial in collaboration with Puce Mary and shattered post-hardcore as part of Sexdrome.
As for the functionality itself, it's nothing earth-shattering: post, tag, share.
His former aide, David Clark, wrote that Iraq shattered the "post-Kosovo consensus" for ethical intervention.
At a political extreme, Karl Marx, whose theories would help shatter the post-Napoleonic dispensation, was forming his ideas just as the finest Biedermeier products were being fashioned.
The Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) had thought it had Mr Aso's assurance that he would soon dissolve the Diet (parliament) and call a snap election, one which the DPJ's leader, Ichiro Ozawa, claims will shatter the post-war structure of LDP-led politics.
Mr Aso's grandfather, Shigeru Yoshida, was the great statesman of shattered Japan's post-war reconstruction.
And finally, Killing Them Softly cuts and pastes a 1974 crime novel by George Higgins (The Friends of Eddie Coyle) into the economically shattered landscape of post-collapse America.
