ABSTRACT
This chapter reviews the problems and prospects for arms control in Europe rests on the assumption that following the Reagan-Gorbachev summit of November 1985, bilateral US-Soviet arms control negotiations in Geneva will continue in a somewhat more purposeful way than heretofore. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) participants have long had in mind a compromise between the approaches, with NATO including in an agreement a commitment on nonuse of force in return for Warsaw Pact agreement to specific confidence-building measures proposed by the NATO participants. The Soviet Union, other Warsaw Treaty participants, and the neutral and nonaligned are pressing in Stockholm for agreement to limit the size of out-of-garrison activities. Moreover, present Western proposals at Stockholm suspend the requirement for pre-notification and for inviting observers in the initial stages of alerts and mobilization exercises.
