The Peacekeeping Proposals of the U. S. 'Outline of Basic Provisions of a Treaty of General and Complete Disarmament in a Peaceful World.'

摘要

The first three essays of the report deal with policy means and ends in the environment of a disarming or disarmed world. They explore the interests of the United States that require protection and enquire into the resources for deterrence and defense that the United States would command apart from what peacekeeping instrumentalities might place at its disposal. The following four essays address themselves to an evaluation of the proposed peacekeeping measures both in terms of their practicability and in terms of their effectiveness as supplements to or substitutes for the armaments that would be eliminated in the process of disarmament. All of the essays deal in varying degrees with highly technical problems, with questions of international law, military organization, the balancing of power process and the like; but the aim of the study is not a technical one. Instead the intention throughout is to probe into the assumptions underlying propositions on the relation between peacekeeping and disarmament and to look into the future on the basis of historical experience and rational theoretical reflection.