Includes index. Based on papers delivered at a "conference ... held [in Chicago in 1962] under the combined auspices of the Johann Gottfried Herder Research Council and Institute of Marburg, and the Foundation for Foreign Affairs of Chicago."

pt. 1.The structure of Europe in the atomic age: European unity in the age of atomic weaponry / Wenzel Jaksch -- Berlin: focus of world strategy / Stefan T. Possony -- The political perspectives of the Common Market / Karl Theodor Baron zu Guttenberg -- pt. 2. Basic elements in the East-West conflict: Soviet foreign policy since the twenty-second party congress / Philip E. Mosely -- The Soviet empire in Eastern Europe / Gotthold Rhode -- The strength of the West / William R. Kintner -- pt. 3. The basic problem of German-Slav reconciliation: Overcoming historical antagonisms / Jerzy Hauptmann -- The search for pluralist solutions / Kurt Glaser -- pt. 4. The response to the Soviet challenge: political and economic objectives: Eastern Europe: a battleground of contemporary ideologies / Eugen Lemberg -- The Common Market and Eastern Bloc integration / Hermann Gross -- The Poles and the Germans / Eugene Davidson -- Long-range objectives in Central and Eastern Europe / Gerhart Niemeyer.