DESIDERATA FOR THE EUROPEAN FUTURE: THE US SECURITY CONTEXT.

Abstract

The kind of future European security system--and future Europe--that will develop in the proximate future will be a resultant of three main forces. It must be acceptable to Europeans, it must gain substantial acceptance by the United States, and it must not cause genuine alarm in the Soviet Union. Europeans have developed several different models of the European future. Included in this paper are summaries of three scenarios from Paris, six from London, and six from Bonn. The US problem is to help develop a Europe that is compatible with US objectives, even while it is attractive to Europeans, who want to be less dependent on the United States and be open to the East and who are likely to unite primarily for functional purposes (e.g., flood control and use of energy) rather than for political purposes. Security may come to be approached as a functional problem. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1969
Accession Number
AD0709433

Entities

Organizations

  • Institute for Defense Analyses

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Biological Phenomena
  • Ecological And Environmental Phenomena
  • Ecological And Environmental Processes
  • Flood Control
  • Floods
  • Geographic Regions
  • Meteorological Phenomena
  • Security
  • United States
  • Ussr

Readers

  • European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP).
  • Strategic Security Studies
  • Systems Analysis and Design