ABSTRACT
This chapter provides one matrix for clarifying the recurring arguments that have shaped the American public effort for peace and, in so doing, have had an important influence on the wider public debate over US foreign policy. In understanding the way in which arguments within the peace effort have shaped the wider public debate over US foreign policy, the relationship between the "main-stream" layers and the activist core of the peace effort is crucial. Cross-currents in the peace effort have, however, taught definition number three, the "peace of the governed community." If the core of the peace effort has not seen the Soviet Union as a principal obstacle to peace, the layers of the peace effort have oscillated between a similarly benign view of Soviet intentions, and a harder view which called for fundamental changes in Soviet society and policy as preconditions to peace.
