Building NATO Collective Defence Capabilities in Northeastern Europe I

I-35: Europe: Declining Fertility Despite IVF

Although fertility rates are falling in many countries, Europe is the continent with the lowest. As men and women choose to have fewer children, total fertility rates in Europe have fallen below replacement levels: for a total fertility rate of 1.5, the rate is around 1.7 children per woman for the cohorts born in 1965. This is due to individual decisions arising from the instability of modern ...

Building human capabilities: education

51 Chapter 1 emphasized the importance of knowledge acquisition as a cornerstone of human development. This chapter focuses on building human capabilities for knowledge acquisition in Arab countries through education. The assessment of the state of education using such indicators as enrolment and illiteracy rates and per capita expenditure reveals tangible achievements but also significant area...

Why NATO is Still Best: Future Security Arrangements for Europe

NATO battlefield strategy for the conventional defense of Central Europe

NATO BATTLEFIELD STRATEGY FOR THE CONVENTIONAL DEFENSE OF CENTRAL EUROPE Patrick Joseph Geary Master of Arts in Political Science University of Richmond 1987 Dr. Arthur B. Gunlicks Thesis Director Although we live in a time in which strategies using nuclear weapons dominate the attention of most defense analysts, there are reasons why more attention should be paid to conventional defense strate...

I I - Mesolithic Europe