Book Description

The kind of future European security system--and future Europe--that will develop in the proximate future will be a resultant of three main forces. It must be acceptable to Europeans, it must gain substantial acceptance by the United States, and it must not cause genuine alarm in the Soviet Union. Europeans have developed several different models of the European future. Included in this paper are summaries of three scenarios from Paris, six from London, and six from Bonn. The US problem is to help develop a Europe that is compatible with US objectives, even while it is attractive to Europeans, who want to be less dependent on the United States and be open to the East and who are likely to unite primarily for functional purposes (e.g., flood control and use of energy) rather than for political purposes. Security may come to be approached as a functional problem. (Author).