Challenges to American National Security in the 1990s

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.- Strategic Nuclear Arms Control.- Strategic Defense and Space Arms Control.- Theater Nuclear Arms Control.- Conclusions.- 5. Strategic Nuclear Weapons after START.- Strategic Consequences.- Force Survivability.- Target Coverage.- Civilian Fatalities.- 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.- What Goal for Conventional Defense?.- Defensive Strategies and the Future of Forward Defense.- The Future Role of American Troops in Europe.- Future Directions in Arms Control.- Nuclear Weapons in Europe.- Choices for Strategies and Force Postures.- Future Directions in Nuclear Arms Control.- 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.- The Evolution of the Three Regional Disputes.- The Rise and Retreat of the Soviet Union.- The Economic Dynamism of the Region.- Trends toward Multipolarity.- Issues for American Policy.- Forward Deployments.- Alliance Management.- Military Strategy.- Arms Control and Regional Disputes.- Diplomatic Strategy.- Conclusions.- 9. Why the Third World Matters.- Third World Threats to American Interests.- The Strategic-Military Threat Posed by the Third World.- The Threat to American Economic Interests Posed by the Third World.- The Threat to American Political-Ideological Interests Posed by the Third World.- The Hyper-Realist Approach to the Third World.- Responding to the Hyper-Realists.- The Strategic Military Threat Posed by the Third World.- The Threat to American Economic Interests Posed by the Third World.- The Threat to American Political-Ideological Interests from the Third World.- 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.- From Advanced Conventional Weapons to Weapons of Mass Destruction.- Regional Proliferation Trends.- Advanced Weaponry, Regional Conflict, and Global Spillovers.- Patterns of Regional Conflict.- Global Spillovers of Proliferation.- A Proliferation Containment Strategy.- Checking Further Proliferation.- Containing Regional Consequences and Global Spillovers.- 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.- American Manufacturing's Declining Position.- A Multipolar Global Economy.- From Spin-Off to Spin-On Technology.- Will American Industrial Decline Res