Challenges to American National Security in the 1990s

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xix

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2. The Setting for American National Security in the 1990s

   • John J. Weltman

   Pages 1-24

3. Some Considerations on the Soviet-American Relationship in the 1990s

   • Robert W. Tucker

   Pages 25-40

4. The New Thinking and Its Limits

   • Walter Laqueur

   Pages 41-55

5. Arms Control and the Future of Nuclear Weapons

   • Steven A. Maaranen

   Pages 57-75

6. Strategic Nuclear Weapons after START

   • Michael M. May

   Pages 77-91

7. Strategic Arms Control and American Security

   • Michael Nacht

   Pages 93-106

8. Beyond German Unification

   • Lynn E. Davis

   Pages 107-129

9. American Security Policy in the Pacific Rim1

   • Harry Harding

   Pages 131-152

10. Why the Third World Matters1

    • Steven R. David

    Pages 153-177

11. New Weapons and Old Enmities

    • Lewis A. Dunn

    Pages 179-203

12. Military and Civilian Uses of Space

    • Michael Krepon

    Pages 205-218

13. Security and Technology

    • John Zysman

    Pages 219-236

14. Predicting the Future of American Commitments

    • George H. Quester

    Pages 237-252

15. Back Matter

    Pages 253-267

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The decade of the 1990s offers a chance to build a new and better international order. What policy choices will this decade pose for the United States? This wide-ranging volume of essays imaginatively addresses these crucial issues. The peaceful revolutions of 1989-1990 in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe have swept away the foundations of the Cold War. The Eastern European nations are free; Europe is no longer divided; Germany is united. The Soviet threat to Western Europe is ending with the collapse of the Warsaw Pact and the withdrawals and asymmetrical cuts of Soviet forces. And U.S.-Soviet rivalry in the Third World is giving way to cooperation in handling conflicts, as in Iraq and elsewhere. Much, of course, remains uncertain and unsettled. What sort of Soviet Union will emerge from the ongoing turmoil, with what political and economic system and what state structure? How far and how soon will the Eastern Euro­ pean states succeed in developing pluralist democracies and market economies? Are the changes irreversible? Certainly there will be turmoil, backsliding, and failures, but a return to the Cold War hardly seems likely.

• American Foreign Policy
• American National Security
• American Troops in Europe
• Arms Control
• German Unification
• Hyper-Realist Approach
• Military Strategy
• Multipolarity
• NATO
• National Security
• Nuclear Arms Negotiations
• Peacekeeping
• START
• Strategic Defense
• Weapons of Mass Destruction

• The Johns Hopkins University, USA

  John J. Weltman

• University of Maryland, College Park, USA

  Michael Nacht, George H. Quester

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