The U.S. role in post-Cold War Europe
Subtitle: significance of European views of the new U.S. administration
By: Marten van Heuven.
Contributors: United States. Dept. of Defense. Office of the Secretary of Defense.; National Defense Research Institute (U.S.)
Publisher: Rand
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Santa Monica, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 21
Subjects: Europe -- Foreign relations -- United States.; United States -- Foreign relations -- Europe.; Europe -- Foreign relations -- 1989-
Other titles: United States role in post-Cold War Europe.
Description: The ability of the Clinton administration to pursue policies of enlargement and multilateralism will depend on European perceptions and rest in part on how Washington can shape European views. While U.S. policies toward Russia, the Middle East, the G-7, and nuclear nonproliferation have on the whole been welcomed, American policy in Iraq, Somalia, and the Uruguay round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade has raised questions. American reluctance to have U.S. troops involved on the ground in Bosnia has raised particular European worries that this issue is being handled as a derivative of domestic U.S. politics and doubts whether the U.S. is prepared to engage in what they experience as the most serious security issue on the continent. Nonetheless, Europeans continue to want an American role in Europe. Suggestions for a more detached American policy serve neither American nor European interests. Without an American capacity to help shape events, Europe faces more turmoil.
Notes: "Prepared for the Office of the Secretary of Defense."
"National Defense Research Institute."
"MR-404-OSD"--Cover.