ABSTRACT
This chapter distinguishes between four forms of security: military security; political security; economic security and socio-psychological security. European security is mainly concerned with the state of three negotiations: the negotiations on strategic arms limitation (SALT II); the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) and the Conference on Mutually Balanced Force Reductions (MBFR or MFR). The military security of Europe is more the concern directly of MBFR and indirectly, although just as importantly, of SALT II. The American interest in European security negotiations is, then, an essentially indirect and primarily damage-limiting one. Basically, on European security, the United States is a status quo power. The European states, whether or not they belong to Western organisations, are closer in their objectives to Romania or to Federal Germany than they are to the Soviet Union. Europe will more and more have to live with the difficult problem of reconciling stability and change, security and freedom.
