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Discusses the setting up of the Committee on the Challenges of Modern Society. It presents the US proposal for its formation and the various problems which this created within the alliance. The other allies feared that the new field of environmental cooperation would endanger the roles of NATO in defence and its inter-governmental character; and that it could become the vehicle for the imposition of American ideas regarding Western industrial production. The chapter examines the strong pressure that the White House (especially the presidential advisor Professor Daniel Patrick Moynihan) brought to bear on the allies, who reluctantly accepted the formation of the committee. Last but not least, the chapter discusses the first plenary of the CCMS, in December 1969, when the initiative was formally launched.
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Hatzivassiliou, E. (2017). The Making of the CCMS, 1969. In: The NATO Committee on the Challenges of Modern Society, 1969–1975. Security, Conflict and Cooperation in the Contemporary World. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53847-1_2
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