Meeting Gorbachev’s Challenge: How to Build Down the NATO-Warsaw Pact Confrontation

ISBN-13: 9780333518786 / Angielski / Miękka / 1990 / 445 str.

Jonathan Dean

Opis

An assessment of the prospects for building down the NATO/Warsaw Pact military confrontation in Europe by negotiated and unilateral measures. The book also gives a far-sighted view of an organization of defence in Europe that will be set up to replace the existing security organizations.

Spis treści

Beginning the build down in Europe - negotiating the INF Treaty; military and political consequences of the INF Treaty; starting point - the current NATO-Warsaw Pact force relationship; the new thinking about armed forces in West and East - can it help in East/West negotiations; lessons from failure - Vienna one and what we can learn from it; the CDE parallel track - success of the Stockholm Conference; the two alliances ready themselves; negotiators' headaches - substantive problems of force reductions; essential first steps - data exchange, early warning and constraint measures; how to cut NATO and Warsaw Pact forces; verifying deep cuts; the way ahead - the European confrontation in a global framework.