ABSTRACT
This chapter proceeds from the premise that military planning alone is insufficient to assure Europe a secure future. Trends in trade patterns, raw materials availability, business practices, and world-wide economic interdependencies require European planners to take a broader view of their nations’ security. Events of the last decade have dramatized how international economic relationships can disturb the well-being of European society, and have revealed the need for planning to make the European economy less susceptible to unforeseen political and economic events. Thus, this analysis attempts to define the concept of economic security, to discuss the policy alternatives for West European economic security planning, and to delineate the differences between the United States and Western Europe on economic security issues.
