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COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS/ ATLANTIC POLICY STUDIES
A Re-Appraisal of the Atlantic Alliance by
HENRY A. KISSINGER author of NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND FOREIGN POLICY
The Atlantic Policy St1tdies
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In showing how the future of NATO can only be shaped by changes in political and 1nilitary atti tu des today, Dr. Kissinger ex amines the main difficulties chat face the Alliance, and he writes forcefully on the strategy for defending Western Europe, on the control of nuclear weapons, the Gern1an proble1n, European unity, East-\Y/est rela A Re-appraisal of tions, and the relative weight of An1erica the Western Alliatice by and Europe in the Alliance. The result is an authoritative, highly in Henry A. Kissinger forn1ed and incisive discussion by one of the 1nost knowledgeable and experienced n1en in the entire field of modern arms and foreign policy, and a distinguished first vol :Or. Henry Kissinger's book deals with the ume in Thr Atlantic Policy Studies to be great and increasingly critical problems of published by McGraw-Hill. the Atlantic Alliance. The author of the DR. HENRY KISSINGER 1s Professor famed Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy and The Necessity for Choice undertakes a of Government at Harvard University and penetrating inquiry into the whole future of a faculty men1ber of its Center for Inter the Atlantic Community in political, eco national Affairs. He is also Director of the Defense Studies Progran1 at Harvard Uni nomic, and military terms. ((Nothing is more dangerous," Dr. Kis versity. From 1955 to 1958 he was Director singer writes,