Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...European governments will go along with elimination of intermediate- range missiles because they have little choice: they committed themselves to the zero option when Reagan proposed it in 1981 and nobody thought the U.S.S.R. would ever accept. But their fear is that scrapping both intermediate- and shorter-range missiles would be a step toward the total denuclearization of Europe...
Indeed, the more difficult negotiations may occur not between the U.S. and U.S.S.R. but between the U.S. and Western Europe -- or perhaps among the Europeans themselves. Those who fear an American "decoupling" from the defense of Europe are in a box, and unlike Shultz they do not find it wonderful. The idea of a denuclearized continent is far from unpopular with a European public nervous about becoming the first targets in a nuclear war. With rare exceptions such as Thatcher, no leader dares argue openly that getting rid of U.S. nuclear missiles is a bad idea. Still less will anyone...
...Europeans feel under pressure to make up their minds quickly on Gorbachev's proposals. U.S.-Soviet INF negotiations resume in Geneva on Thursday, and the U.S. does not want to keep Moscow waiting long for an answer. A NATO policy-planning group will convene this week in Albuquerque to begin mapping a coordinated response. Policy planners hope to reach agreement on a European position by mid-May, mostly because they think the U.S. is in no mood to wait beyond then. Some fear that the Reagan Administration wants to hurry into an agreement that would restore much of the luster...
...problem for American and European negotiators in framing a response to Gorbachev's proposals is reading the Soviet leader's motives. One group sees Gorbachev as pursuing the old game of detaching the U.S. from its European allies and trying to turn West European public opinion against its own leaders. The Soviets, says Ruhe, are offering to eliminate whole classes of nuclear weapons because "they have finally discovered where their real military advantages are -- in the conventional field...
...shorter-range missiles, Gorbachev has been changing bargaining offers with lightning speed. Some Americans wonder whether, by the time the U.S. and its European allies work out an answer to the Kremlin's latest proposals, Gorbachev may not have one or several new ones. As the U.S. and its allies consider a response, they must remain alert to the possibility, as Britain's Foreign Secretary Geoffrey Howe put it, that the "swiftness of the Soviet hand could deceive the Western...