Moscow's Spring or NATO's Autumn: U.S. Policy and the Future of Europe.

Abstract

In view of the dramatic charges within the Soviet Union under Mikhail Gorbachev, NATO faces the challenge of coordinating its defense planning with its diplomatic approaches to the Soviet Union. This Note considers issues fundamental to NATO'S strategic policy: what goals NATO should pursue in the years ahead, if containment and deterrence are less predominant concerns; what its priorities should be among competing political, economic, and diplomatic policies; how it should approach arms control negotiations; what its defense policy and military strategy should be; what force improvement measures it should pursue; and what its stance toward coalition planning and transatlantic relations should be. Finally, it considers the U.S. role in this context, and concludes that the United States must continue its involvement in NATO and European security affairs. Keywords: Foreign policy. (SDW)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1989
Accession Number
ADA211513

Entities

People

  • Richard L. Kugler

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Counter WMD
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Agreements
  • Armored Personnel Carriers
  • Arms Control
  • Artillery
  • Central Europe
  • Cold War
  • Defense Planning
  • Economic Systems
  • Governments
  • Intergovernmental Organizations
  • International Organizations
  • International Relations
  • Market Economy
  • Military Organizations
  • Second World War
  • Treaties
  • United States

Fields of Study

  • Political science

Readers

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