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

by Jonathan Dean

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780333518786
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/01/1990
Edition description:	1989
Pages:	445
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

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 Skholm 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.