United States security strategy for Europe and NATO

Technical Report · Thu Jun 01 04:00:00 EDT 1995

OSTI ID:195169

The United States National Security Strategy, published in February 1995, is designed to meet this European challenge. Our global strategy seeks to enlarge the community of market democracies while deterring and containing a range of threats to our nation and our interests through engagement with our allies. Focusing on new threats and new opportunities, its central goals are to enhance security by maintaining a strong defense capability and promoting cooperative security measures; to promote democracy abroad; and to open foreign markets and spur global economic growth. This document explains how U.S. defense policy is furthering these goals in Europe. As will be seen, we are pursuing our security strategy not only through NATO, but also through other multilateral institutions, such as the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), supporting separate yet complementary efforts by our allies and friends in the European Union, and through the bilateral relationships that have played such a valuable role in U.S.-European cooperation for more than forty years.

• Research Organization: Assistant Secretary of Defense (International Security Affairs), Washington, DC (United States)
• OSTI ID: 195169
• Report Number(s): AD-A--298439/1/XAB
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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