Title: NATO in the 1980s :
Authors: Brady, Linda P.; Kaufman, Joyce P.
Date: 1985
Publisher: Praeger,
Physical description: xi, 274 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language: English
LC classification: U
Abstract: "The editors' purpose in compiling this collection of papers was to present the military, economic and political challenges that face the Alliance -- as well as to propose some potential responses to these challenges. Despite the conflicts that divide NATO, they believe that the members have a common interest in seeing that the Alliance endures"--Booknotes.
Contents: pt. 1. The Atlantic Alliance: an uncertain future. NATO in the 1980s: an uncertain future? -- pt. 2. Challenges. The Military challenge to NATO -- The out-of-area question and NATO burden sharing -- The economic dimension of the challenge -- European approaches to NATO: "Quot Homines, tot sententiae" -- pt. 3. Responses. Conventional and theater nuclear force modernization: the military response -- Evaluating NATO's efforts to achieve standardization and interoperability -- NATO: problems of collective economic security -- Arms control and European security -- Public opinion and national security in Western Europe and the United States -- pt. 4. Alternative futures. NATO: the future.
Subject headings (LCSH): North Atlantic Treaty Organization.