Publication Date

4-1971

Advisor(s) - Committee Chair

Faye Carroll, Thomas Madron, Georg Bluhm

Comments

This thesis completed in the now defunct Department of Government.

Degree Type

Master of Arts

Abstract

This paper proposes to undertake a comprehensive investigation into the role, attitudes, and interrelationships of West Germany, France, Great Britain, and the United States within the framework of the North American Treaty Organization. This investigation will be limited to the involvement of these four members states in the proposed establishment, and eventual failure of a NATO controlled multilateral nuclear force (MLF). This limitation was imposed because it was discerned that these four major NATO members set the tempo and boundaries for the debate stemming from this proposal. The smaller member states seemed reluctant to take a definite stance on the issue until one of these four set forth its own convictions. Once this was done the smaller countries allied themselves with a major member's views. Thus, a study of the relationships and positions of France, Germany, Great Britain and the United States will lend itself to a full and precise investigation of the matter. The time span involved in the major portion of this research will be limited to the years 1960 through 1965, as these were the years in which the MLF proposal had its origin, was debated and died from a lack of action.

Disciplines

American Politics | Comparative Politics | International and Area Studies | International Relations | Leadership Studies | Political Science | Social and Behavioral Sciences

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