This extraordinary compendium concerns the future of the Western
alliance and the development of the peace movements in Europe and
in the United States. The peace movement is an old phenomenon given
new life by NATO decisions concerning nuclear deployment in Europe
and the Soviet responses along the same lines. After a long postwar
marriage, Europeans and Americans alike are reexamining the
premises of the Western alliance.The contributors provide a variety
of scenarios, extending from the maintenance of the status quo to
the complete dismantling of the Western alliance, or at least of
its NATO component. In a context of rapid change and new challenges
to the democratic bloc, the editors and authors argue for higher
levels of economic integration and caution that competition might
spill over into political collapse.The work deals with thorny
security issues in a frank and policy-oriented way. While each
contributor expresses a unique standpoint, a surprising consensus
emerges: The need for democratic nations to move toward a higher
policy ground in order to preserve the fundamental alliance that
led to the postwar consensus to begin with. Some contributors feel
this is still possible, others that the time has passed, and that
national rather than regional interests will once more prevail.The
work contains an extraordinary array of talent from both the
American and European perspectives. Among the major contributors
and their themes are Henry Kissinger on "A Plan to Reshape NATO";
William G. Hyland on "The European Peace Movement and NATO"; Irving
Kristol on "What's Wrong with NATO?"; Theodore Draper on "The
Western Misalliance"; Niels Haagerup on "The Nordic Peace
Movements"; Martin Ceadel on "The British Nuclear Disarmers"; and
Jeffrey Herf on "The SPD and the Peace Movement in West Germany."
This is a well-integrated text, with no random essays.
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