Securing Europe's Future

by Stephen Flanagan, Fen Osler Hampson

Overview

This book analyses a number of emerging, enduring and neglected issues that will affect European security and the stability of the Atlantic Alliance in the near future.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781135785765
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/19/2005
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	336
File size:	528 KB

About the Author

Stephen J. Flanagan is Executive Director of the Center for Science and International Affairs and Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy in the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He has been an International Affairs Fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations, a Research Associate of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) in London, and a Visiting Scholar at the Georgetown University Center for Strategic and International Studies. He was a Professional Staff Member of the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence from 1978 to 1983. He received his B.A. in political science from Columbia University and a Ph.D. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University. He has published widely on European security, strategic arms control, and intelligence issues and was the author or co- author of more than twenty Congressional reports. Fen Osler Hampson, a Canadian national, is a research fellow at the Center for Science and International Affairs and coordinator of the Kennedy School’s Project on Avoiding Nuclear War. A graduate of the University of Toronto and the London School of Economics, he received his Ph.D. in Political Science from Harvard University. He was a member of the Kennedy School’s Energy and Security Project and a contributor to the volume Energy and Security. He has written on European security issues and crisis management.

Table of Contents

Preface 1. Introduction: The Changing Elements of European Security Part One: Military Dimensions 2. European Nuclear Security: Beyond Current Dilemmas 3. SDI’s Implications for Europe: Strategy, Politics and Technology 4. Emerging Technologies and the Security of Western Europe 5. NATO’s Conventional Defense Choices in the 1980s Part Two: Political Dimensions 6. The German Search for Security 7. Reassurance, Consensus and Controversy: The Domestic Dilemmas of European Defense 8. The Potential Contributions of Arms Control 9. Is There an Alternative to NATO? Part Three: Neglected Dimensions 10. European Economic Security 11. Armed Neutrality: Its Application and Future 12. Regional Security and the Out-of-Area Problem 13. Conclusion: Managing the Trans-Atlantic Partnership