The first day of the Second International Symposium on New Problems of Advanced Societies held from May 3 to 7, 1976, in Hamburg, was devoted to "Basic Political and Social Problems of the 1980's". In the following article those problems are traced back to a number of fundamental failures. Their...

This article is an excerpt from the author's report presented at the Second International Symposium on New Problems of Advanced Societies in which he also discussed possible interrelations between military and economic parameters as well as some of Europe’s domestic problems.