The European Defence Initiative: Europe's Bid for Equality

This study examines the increasing interest in and relevance of the so-called 'Europeanist' strand in NATO's defence thinking. This aspect of NATO's defence planning could encourage the recasting of the strategic priorities established by the 'atlanticists' over the last 36 years.

Dr. Geoffrey Lee Williams is Director of the Institute of Economic and Political Studies (INSTEP), an independent organisation based in Cambridge, and is a founding Director of The Transatlantic Institute for Study Abroad. He served as Senior Assistant Director, London region, with the Confederation of British Industry for two years after his return to the UK in 1982 and is a master Freeman of the Company of Watermen and Lightermen and a Freeman of the City of London. Dr. Williams was head of International Relations in the Department of Linguistics and European Studies at the University of Surrey and a Visiting Professor to that university where he continued to contribute to the work of the Surrey European Management School. He was recently awarded an honorary doctorate of humane letters by the University of Redlands, California for his work and publications in the field of international relations. He is the author of 10 books and lives in Cambridge.