Challenges to American National Security in the 1990s [electronic resource] | Weltman, John J, Nacht, Michael, Quester, George H

Challenges to American National Security in the 1990s
Author: John J. Weltman, Michael Nacht, George H. Quester
Published by Springer US
ISBN: 978-1-4684-9000-8
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4684-8998-9

Table of Contents:

• The Setting for American National Security in the 1990s
• Some Considerations on the Soviet-American Relationship in the 1990s
• The New Thinking and Its Limits
• Arms Control and the Future of Nuclear Weapons
• Strategic Nuclear Weapons after START
• Strategic Arms Control and American Security
• Beyond German Unification
• American Security Policy in the Pacific Rim1
• Why the Third World Matters1
• New Weapons and Old Enmities
• Military and Civilian Uses of Space
• Security and Technology
• Predicting the Future of American Commitments

1. The Setting for American National Security in the 1990s -- Breaking with the Past -- The Soviet Union Retrenches -- European Implications -- East Asian Implications -- Third World Implications -- A World of Greater Complexity -- A Changing International System -- Changes in American Foreign Policy -- 2. Some Considerations on the Soviet-American Relationship in the 1990s -- 3. The New Thinking and Its Limits: Soviet Foreign Policy under Gorbachev -- The New Thinking -- China and the Soviet Union -- The Third World and the Soviet Union -- The United States and the Soviet Union -- Conclusions -- 4. Arms Control and the Future of Nuclear Weapons -- The Arms-Control Context -- Strategic Nuclear Arms Negotiations -- Strategic Defense and Space Arms Control -- Theater Nuclear Arms Negotiations -- Future Nuclear Force Reductions -- Conclusions -- 5. Strategic Nuclear Weapons after START -- Strategic Consequences -- Discussion -- 6. Strategic Arms Control and American Security: Not What the Strategists Had in Mind -- What Is Arms Control All About and Who Says So? -- Personalities, Domestic Politics, and the Sense of History -- 7. Beyond German Unification: The West's Strategic and Arms-Control Policies -- Conventional Forces in Europe -- Nuclear Weapons in Europe -- Conclusions -- The Future of NATO -- The Strategic Purposes of Conventional Forces -- The Role of American Troops -- Conventional Arms Control -- U.S. Nuclear Weapons in Europe -- Reconstructing the Foundations of Peace -- 8. American Security Policy in the Pacific Rim -- The Elements of the Strategic Situation in East Asia -- Issues for American Policy -- Conclusions -- 9. Why the Third World Matters -- Third World Threats to American Interests -- A Truly Realistic Approach to the Third World -- 10. New Weapons and Old Enmities: Proliferation, Regional Conflict, and Implications for U.S. Strategy in the 1990s -- The Proliferation of Advanced Weaponry -- Advanced Weaponry, Regional Conflict, and Global Spillovers -- A Proliferation Containment Strategy -- Containing the Proliferation Threat -- 11. Military and Civilians Uses of Space: Lingering and New Debates -- Lingering Debates from the 1980s -- New Debates for the 1990s -- Open Skies: The Policy issues and Debates -- The Role of the Media -- Multilateral Verification of Peacekeeping Operations -- 12. Security and Technology -- America's Changing Position in the Global Econonny -- From Spin-Off to Spin-On Technology -- Will American Industrial Decline Reshape the Security Structure? -- 13. Predicting the Future of American Commitments -- Why Americans Care -- Ethnic Considerations -- Changes in Precedent -- Economic Changes -- The Proliferation of Weapons -- Nuclear Proliferation -- Chemical and Biological Warfare Proliferation -- Delivery System Proliferation -- Naval Deployments -- About the Authors