Word: atlanticists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...respect, the Malta meeting did not represent the inauguration of a new world order at all but a holding action on behalf of the old one. George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev have a shared interest in slowing down the rush of events, particularly the juggernaut of German reunification. Consummate Atlanticist that he is, Bush is sensitive to West European anxiety about the disproportionate strength of a single Germany...
Policy differences aggravated, and were aggravated by, the personal hassles. Haig, who was chief assistant to Henry Kissinger on Nixon's National Security Council staff, is a devoted believer in the "Atlanticist" school of diplomacy, which insists that the U.S. must always try to act in concert with its European allies and favor a carefully calibrated mixture of carrots and sticks in dealing with the Soviet Union. In contrast, most of the Californians around Reagan-and to some extent the President himself-instinctively tend to follow a hard, unyielding line toward Moscow, backed up by military muscle, whether...
...five parties in Rome's center-left coalition government all support the Atlanticist foreign policy. So does the powerful Italian Communist Party (P.C.I.). Since the collapse of the "historic compromise," a power-sharing agreement with the ruling Christian Democrats, the Communists have sought to win votes by putting distance between themselves and the Soviet Union. Thus the P.C.I, has criticized the deployment of Soviet SS-20s and expressed only token opposition to the installation of U.S. missiles in Italy...
Mitterrand's strong position has come as a surprise, mainly because his views on France's defense have not always been consistent during his 35-year political career. A confirmed "Atlanticist" who be lieved in having a common Western de fense, he voted against De Gaulle's development of an independent nuclear deterrent. The Common Program Mitter rand signed with the Communist Party in 1972 also rejected the force de frappe. Not until 1977 did Hernu, then a close adviser of Mitterrand's, persuade him that a nuclear force was a requisite for a modern state...
NATO. While Mitterrand talked as an Atlanticist during the campaign, he is unlikely to return France to NATO's integrated military command. He is committed to maintaining the independent French nuclear deterrent and will probably not reduce defense spending drastically...