Europe and the Superpowers: "Political, Economic, and Military Policies in the 1980s"

by Steven Bethlen (Editor)

Overview

Relations between the superpowers and the nations of Eastern and Western Europe are especially tenuous as the midpoint of the 1980s approaches. The contributors to this volume assess the current political, economic, and military dimensions of Europe’s international relations and consider the prospects for change, focusing on the role of the rival alliance systems (NATO and the Warsaw Pact), Soviet conceptions of the future of Europe, U.S. goals concerning the maintenance of NATO, and Europe’s assessment of its own interests and objectives. The book concludes by addressing the impact of Soviet and East European domestic developments on present and future East-West relations.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780429716690
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	03/04/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	178
File size:	604 KB

About the Author

Bethlen, Steven

Table of Contents

Westview Replica Editions -- Foreword -- Europe and the Superpowers: An Analytical Framework -- Western Europe and the United States: Reciprocal Diffusion, Convergence, and the Prospects of a Non-Military Atlanticism -- Arms Control and Security: The Federal Republic and the European Order -- Soviet Foreign Policy from Crossroads to Crossroads -- Eastern Europe at the Crossroads: Contradictory Tendencies of Subservience and Autonomy -- Do Systemic Variables Make a Difference? Causes of Successes and Failures of the East European Communist States -- Observations on Trends in East-West Trade in the 1970s -- East-West Economic Relations: An East-West or a West-West Problem? -- Russia and the West at the End of an Era -- Eastern Europe and the West at the End of an Era