ABSTRACT
This chapter examines Henry Kissinger's plan to revamp NATO, which obviously reflects considerable disharmony between Washington and Western Europe. It presents a comparative analysis of selected public opinion data collected in Western Europe in the early 1980s with similar data collected in the 1950s and 1960s. The chapter provides some very recent American data and analyzes them in relation to similar findings in Europe. Transatlantic divergences in perceptions about national security and the consequent tensions are nothing new to the 1980s. Neutralist and pacifist trends with anti-American overtones became more and more apparent in Western Europe, and these trends evoked anti-European sentiments and guests for a return to isolationism in the United States. The degree of anti-Americanism in Western Europe has been a continuing concern for Americans and has produced a variety of reactions from time to time in the United States.
