Western Europe between the Superpowers : how much detente and how much defense?

Western Europe between the Superpowers : how much detente and how much defense?

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Western Europe between the Superpowers : how much detente and how much defense?


Title:	Western Europe between the Superpowers : how much detente and how much defense?
Author:	David P. Calleo (Interviewee); Paul Nitze (Interviewee); Krogh, Peter F. (Peter Frederic) (Moderator)
Abstract:	Looks at our changing and often difficult relationship with our western allies. Discusses what part the United States should play in Western Europe's struggle for democracy.
Description:	In this episode, Ambassador at large Paul Nitze and Professor David Calleo discuss the origins and future of the NATO alliance. Formed in the early years of the cold war, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization provided the United States and its allies with the military deterrent needed to counter Soviet forces. In the wake of new Soviet foreign policy under Glasnost and the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, which eliminated all intermediate range missiles from Europe, NATO members found themselves conflicted between a desire for arms control and the continuing need to ensure their own security. As American and Western European interests began to diverge in the final years of the cold war, the question for policymakers became how to balance the dual détente and defense policy that had guided NATO for the past decade. This episode provides a brief history of NATO and discusses the United States’ commitment to NATO operations in Europe, as well as the question of burden sharing between the United States and it European allies.
Permanent Link:	http://hdl.handle.net/10822/552705
Date Issued:	1988
Date Created:	1988
Subject:	United States -- Foreign relations ; Europe -- Politics and government -- 1945- ; Europe -- Foreign relations -- United States ; United States -- Foreign relations -- Europe ; North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) ; Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty ; Glasnost ; Cold War ; United States Foreign Policy ; Arms Control ; Detente ; Arms Reduction Treaties ; Foreign Relations