Public Opinion and National Security in Western Europe: Consensus Lost?

ISBN-13: 9781349077090 / Angielski / Miękka / 1989 / 293 str.

Richard C. Eichenberg

Opis

This survey of European public opinion on national security issues interprets numerous public opinion polls retrieved from government ministries, commercial agencies and educational institutions. It is a comparative and historical survey of the security challenges faced by Western governments.

Spis treści

Crisis or consensus? - public opinion and national security in Western Europe; the ambiguous politics of parity - power and deterrence in European opinion; collision and collusion - the public, nuclear weapons and arms control; the three pillars of Western security - public opinion and the NATO alliance; old politics and new politics - the public and defence spending; two track - continuity, change and consensus in the politics of European security. Appendices: statistical significance between subsamples; a note on sources of public opinion data.