ABSTRACT
This chapter shows that what Quayle said was significant, as was the fact that a senior American official said it, and that it said it in Germany. Arms control and collective defense and new architectures are thus only the beginning of security. Atlanticism is a social institution, centred on the countries of the North Atlantic that provides the normative framework for cooperation among the leading industrial countries. The chapter attempts to show how farm wars could undermine Atlanticism in general. It shows how farm wars are more directly harmful to North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the formal manifestation of such security cooperation. In thinking about NATO's original shared purposes, it is worth recalling that there has always been an economic dimension of the Alliance. The Cold War took place outside the North Atlantic security community.
