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...Widen the annual economic summit with our principal allies into a strategic-economic summit, so that we can review together more systematically how best to handle the East-West relationship, thus minimizing the differences among ourselves, which the Soviets are always tempted to exploit...
...decisive point is that we use our freedom to achieve good relations with the Soviet Union, rather than confrontation. East-West relations today are preoccupied with disarmament, rearmament or arms control. Experience teaches that it is not disarmament that points the way to peace, but rather that peaceful relations open the door to disarmament. States arm themselves against one another when there are poor relations between them, when they have no common interests or when these are not developed, when cooperation is rejected or not even attempted. But where concrete fields of cooperation are exploited or created, arms problems present...
...Helsinki accords divide East-West relations into three categories: security, cooperation and the free movement of people. Wisely, it was agreed that all three categories should be regarded only in context and as being of equal value. Security matters, taken on their own, offer too little chance of success. The same applies to an isolated policy concerning the free movement of people. Cooperation is of paramount importance. If we succeed in extending, step by step, cooperation in the fields of science, food, ecology, transportation, economics, energy and development policy, then arms control and even free movement of people will ultimately...
...Western Europe it was indeed the worst possible time for a demonstration of impotence. As the chill in U.S.-Soviet relations has deepened, West European confidence in the Reagan Administration's leadership has drained and there are increasing calls for a greater role by Community members in easing East-West tensions. Moreover, without concerted industrial cooperation, the ailing economies of the Ten will find it difficult to deal with the technological challenge from Japan and the U.S. Nor can Western Europe bargain confidently with the U.S. over festering trade problems in steel and farm products...
...other hand, the major diplomatic failures of the last half-century occurred when statesmen deviated from a pragmatic approach, like in the Cold War for example. In perhaps the best part of the book, Eban shows how the East-West conflict grew out of U.S. misperceptions of Soviet intentions based on a misreading of history. Roosevelt, his aides and successors erred in thinking that the Soviets would share the U.S. enthusiasm for the infant U.N. and the idea of self-determination for nations. Any realistic examination of history would have led Americans to conclude that the Russians would resume their...