The European Defence Initiative : Europe’s Bid for Equality

Europeanized' NATO consisting of a strong European dimension. This can only succeed if it is reconciled with the global strategic interests of the United States. Moreover, such a 'Europeanized' and increasingly denuclearized NATO must be seen to be compatible with arms control measures, and the overall stability of the balance of power in Europe, as well as being consistent with the strategic nuclear balance itself. Clearly, the acid test of a viable all-round defence of Western Europe lies in its contribution to the integration of Western Europe. Yet such integration is paradoxically perhaps also the central weakness of an alliance based upon a more equal relationship between America and Western Europe. There remains a basic antithesis between unreformed Atlanticism and latent Europeanism in NATO, which only a more equal relationship between their respective pillars can diminish. Front Matter....Pages i-xi Introduction....Pages 1-11 Front Matter....Pages 13-13 Britain and the Third Force Syndrome....Pages 15-27 The Growth of the Strategic Dichotomy....Pages 28-42 The Rise of Europeanism....Pages 43-58 Front Matter....Pages 59-59 The Fragmentation of Alliance: the Need for a New Military Strategy?....Pages 61-77 European Defence: How Real is the Soviet Threat?....Pages 78-101 The Transformation of the Soviet Navy: the Threat to Europe and NATO’s Response....Pages 102-112 National Perspectives within the Alliance: Impediments to Defence Integration....Pages 113-131 Differing Priorities: the Lesson of the Siberian Pipeline Drama....Pages 132-139 The British Nuclear Defence Option....Pages 140-159 Front Matter....Pages 161-161 The Unilateralist Threat to Peace: the Rise of the Peace Movement....Pages 163-171 The Dual Track Decision: the European Dimension....Pages 172-185 The Limitations of Arms Control: the Need for a New Beginning?....Pages 186-199 European Defence and the Strategic Defence Initiative....Pages 200-212 Conclusions....Pages 213-219 Back Matter....Pages 220-242