Nonregional Impacts of Southwest Asian Policy: The US Soviet-OECD Triangle.

Abstract

This memorandum examines the impact of emerging US policy in Southwest Asia upon two important actors in the Southwest Asian area: the USSR and the OECD nations. After analyzing US, Soviet and OECD interests in Southwest Asia, the author concludes that emerging US policy in the region appears to generate more tensions with US allies than with the Soviet Union. Differences in interests and perspectives have led to this situation. Unless interests and perspectives change, US policy in Southwest Asia is likely to continue to make Europe and Japan nervous and is not likely to generate conflict in the US-Soviet relationship. The memorandum concludes with policy suggestions which would help to lessen US-allied tensions but which not heighten US-Soviet strains. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 28, 1981
Accession Number
ADA111444

Entities

People

  • George E. Hudson

Organizations

  • United States Army War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Agreements
  • Arabia
  • Asia
  • Europe
  • Governments
  • Gulfs
  • Indian Ocean
  • International Security
  • Middle East
  • Persian Gulf
  • Political Science
  • Saudi Arabia
  • Southwest Asia
  • United States
  • Universities
  • Ussr
  • Western Europe

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science
  • Political science

Readers

  • East Asian Political and Security Studies within the Soviet Union
  • International Relations and European Studies