Peace and Survival: West Germany, the Peace Movement, and European Security by DavidGressReview by: Fritz SternForeign Affairs, Vol. 64, No. 5 (Summer, 1986), p. 1121Published by: Council on Foreign RelationsStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20042827 .

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RECENT BOOKS 1121 EUROPEAN PEACE MOVEMENTS AND THE FUTURE OF THE

WESTERN ALLIANCE. Edited by Walter Laqueur and Robert Hunter. New Brunswick (N.J.): Transaction Books (with the Center for Strategic & International Studies, Georgetown University), 1985, 450 pp. $34.95.

A collection of exceptionally strong essays on the future of the alliance, which some judge to be "mortally mil.** Henry Kissinger's proposal for NATO reform is reprinted, with its recommendation of the appointment of a European as SACEUR. Essays on individual peace movements, theo

logical issues and church policies are splendidly informative and useful even at a time when the peace movements seem in decline. There are several

analyses of the German mood and conditions. Altogether a valuable volume, even if a bit detailed and predictable in places, providing a sound survey of current difficulties and possibilities within the alliance.

PEACE AND SURVIVAL: WEST GERMANY, THE PEACE MOVE MENT, AND EUROPEAN SECURITY. By David Gress. Stanford (Calif.): Hoover Press, 1985, 266 pp. $15.95.

An American-trained Danish historian, now at the Hoover Institution,

probes the political views of the German peace movement and of what he calls the "nationalist neutralism" beyond the peace movement in the context of their historical and cultural assumptions. The book, well informed and with a pleasingly broad philosophical focus, is nevertheless more of a

polemic against these groups than a balanced study of the growing distanc

ing of Europeans from American policies. The animus is clear, as is the

danger of writing instant history: "The abandonment of the Atlanticist line

by the SPD is, without question, the most dramatic and portentous devel

opment in West German politics since the inauguration of the Ostpolitik of the social-liberal coalition in 1969." An example of facile and mischievous

judgments.

The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe

John C. Campbell

THE STRUGGLE FOR THE THIRD WORLD: SOVIET DEBATES AND AMERICAN OPTIONS. By Jerry F. Hough. Washington: Brook

ings, 1986, 293 pp. $32.95 (paper, $12.95). What this book does better than any other is to summarize and analyze

the vast Soviet academic literature on world affairs and to relate it to the actualities of Soviet foreign policy. The author shows that these "scholarly" articles and books are not just propaganda; they constitute a running debate on events in the outside world, and they are too little understood or heeded in American thinking about the Soviet Union (Washington being one of the last bastions of Stalinist orthodoxy). The Third World necessarily has a prominent place in the exposition, but the book also covers historical and

changing Soviet views and policies on relations with the West, economic

development, political systems and revolutionary strategy. The suggestions for U.S. policy, which Hough sees as following directly from his study of the Soviet side, are directed to issues now current, and are sure to be controversial.

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