The survival of NATO as a viable alliance is currently challenged by a shift in the strategic balance of power, as well as by global events and contingencies. The contributors to this volume draw on their vast political and diplomatic experience to identify and analyze the problems confronting NATO for the remainder of the twentieth century.

Preface -- The Future of NATO -- The Future of NATO -- Europe and the Alliance in the Next Decade -- Political Problems in the Future of NATO -- Strategic and Military Problems of the Alliance -- The Soviet Strategic Challenge in the 1980s -- Theatre Nuclear Forces in Europe: Is NATO Running Out of Options? -- The Nuclear Alternatives -- European Nuclear Options -- Alternative Conventional Force Postures -- Geopolitical Realities and Alliance Military Contingencies: The Northern Flank -- The Southern Flank: New Dimensions for the Alliance -- For Want of a Nail: The Logistics of the Alliance -- East-West Strategy and the Middle East-Persian Gulf -- Sea Power and NATO Strategy -- Political and Economic Problems of the Alliance -- American Foreign Policy: The Changing Political Universe -- The Strategic Role of the Western Business Community: An Entrepreneurial View -- Labor and the Alliance -- Energy and the Future of NATO -- A New North Atlantic Treaty of Technological Cooperation and Trade -- Allied Cooperation in Armaments Development, Production, and Support: A European View -- Transtlantic Arms Collaboration: An Industry Perspective -- Organizational and Leadership Problems of the Alliance -- Social Change and the Defense of the West -- Does NATO Exist? -- Intra-Alliance Diversities and Challenges: NATO in an Age of Hot Peace -- Public Support for NATO in Europe -- Structural and Organizational Problems of NATO: Some Solutions -- NATO in the 1980s: The Need for Pragmatic Leadership