A New Order for the Security and Defense of Europe

Abstract

A new security and defense arrangement for Western Europe, one that depends on the contributions of both the European Union (EU) and the United States NATO, is appropriate and mutually beneficial. The combined effort of the three will ultimately result in greater regional stability. specifically, it will provide a degree of autonomy for and increased defense burden sharing by the EU, it will allow the United States to remain engaged in European affairs, and it will ensure the continued preeminence of NATO in the defense and security of Western Europe ensuring the future success of such an arrangement requires that several outstanding issues be addressed and resolved such as the inadequate level of EU defense spending, pending EU and NATO memberships, coordination of intra-European military forces and the independent use of supplementary NATO capabilities by the EU.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 2002
Accession Number
ADA404939

Entities

People

  • Brent Hearn Ii

Organizations

  • Marine Corps University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • C4I
  • Counter WMD
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Central Europe
  • Command And Control
  • European Communities
  • European Union
  • Germany
  • Governments
  • International Law
  • International Relations
  • Market Economy
  • National Security
  • Nato
  • Political Systems
  • Security
  • Treaties
  • United States
  • Ussr
  • Western Europe

Readers

  • Economics
  • International Relations and European Studies