The Evolution of an International Actor: Western Europe's New Assertiveness

Part 1 West European power potential: European trade policy - coping with the internal menace and external challenge, Roy Ginsberg European foreign policy - power block, civilian model - or flop?, Christopher Hill European security policy - between self-assertiveness and dependence, Reinhardt Rummel. Part 2 European defense initiatives: West Germany and France - convergent and divergent perspectives on European security co-operation, Peter Schmidt the Franco-German security relationship, David Garnham. Part 3 ATBM: European or Atlantic solution, David Robertson West European threat assessment - an upcoming question, Reinhardt Rummel. Part 4 Transatlantic provocations: Western Europe in Reagan's world - responding to a new American challenge, David Allen and Michael Smith a new transatlantic bargain - America's reaction vis-a-vis European self-assertiveness, Stanley R.Sloan.