New Forms of Security
Views from Central, Eastern and Western Europe
Published on 13. July 1995
Book
Hardback
178 pages
978-1-85521-621-1 (ISBN)
Description
It has become a truism to say that the security agenda for the 1990s cannot be the same as that which prevailed during the "Long Peace" of the period 1945-1990. This book addresses the changed security situation in Europe. It attempts to elucidate what it means to be a "European" by focusing on fears for a collective future and on proposals to improve it. It demonstrates that a European-wide consensus is emerging that needs to be fully absorbed by the institutional structures that attempt to direct security matters on the Continent. The book addresses some basic questions: what is security?; what is now really meant by the state?; how are new agendas created and how are they mediated into practical policy decisions and processes? These questions are examined with reference to military security, economic security and humanitarian security.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 159 mm
Width: 226 mm
Weight
400 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-85521-621-1 (9781855216211)
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Content
Section A - Rethinking military security: debunking certain myths of post Cold-War military security in Europe, Pal Dunay; NATO - approaching the millennium, Dan Hiester; the former non-Soviet Warsaw Treaty Organization countries' security choices in the post Cold-War era, Monika Wohlfeld; security issues in the former Soviet Union and the question of "Russia resurgent", Elaine Holoboff; some military and political requirements of collective security in Europe, Mark Khroustalev; Russia's foreign policy concerns and the implications for Western security, John Dunn. Section B - New thinking about economic security: security levelled out - the dominance of the local and the regional, Jaap de Wilde; economic intervention by international economic organizations in Central and Eastern Europe - will it lead to more or less "security" for the region?, Andrew Williams; towards an Eastern enlargement, scenarios for the European Union, Anna Murphy. Section C - New thinking about humanitarian security: can ethnic conflicts ever be resolved? - the implications of ethnic conflicts in Eastern and Central Europe, Gabor Kardos; humanitarian security and involuntary migration in Europe, Judit Toth.