The Future Of European Alliance Systems Nato And The Warsaw Pact | Politics

Recent events in Afghanistan and Poland as well as the Twenty-Sixth Party Congress have raised questions about the future direction of the Warsaw Treaty Organization. Similarly pressing issues such as the placement of long-range theater nuclear forces burden sharing and threats to the security of Europe from peripheral areas (for instance the Middle East) call attention to the urgent need for a re-examination of priorities and strategies within the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. This book addresses these military considerations as well as the political and social dimensions of European security. The distinguished authors discuss four major subjects-European security perspectives NATO the warsaw Pact and resource allocations for defense-within the framework of comparative alliance approaches. Their detailed descriptions of current problems diversities and discussions within the two alliance systems offer insight into the differing ideas of what constitutes security. |The Future Of European Alliance Systems NATO And The Warsaw Pact | Politics