The Evolution Of An International Actor

Preface -- Preparing West Europe for the 1990s -- West Europe between National Interests and Global Needs -- European Foreign Policy: Power Bloc, Civilian Model - or Flop? -- European Trade Policy at Mid-Decade: Coping with the Internal Menace and the External Challenge -- West European Security Policy: Between Assertiveness and Dependence -- West Europe's Particular Contribution to Western Defense -- Establishing Security Policy in the European Community* -- Franco-German Defense Cooperation: A Basis for the Europeanization of NATO? -- West Germany and France: Convergent or Divergent Perspectives on European Security Cooperation? -- West European Threat Assessment: An Instrument of Assertiveness? -- West Europe in the Transatlantic Bargain -- West Europe in Reagan's World: Responding to a New American Challenge -- The "Corn War": A Euro-American Trade Dispute -- The Power of Strategic Initiatives in the Federal Republic of Germany -- A New Transatlantic Bargain? An Essay on US Policy toward European Defense Cooperation -- Annex