Stuart Croft - European Security without the Soviet Union

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European Security without the Soviet Union

I. Croft, Stuart II. Williams, Phil

327.1

ISBN 0-7146-3499-9

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European security without the Soviet Union / edited by

Stuart Croft and Phil Williams

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN 0-7146-3499-9: $34.00

1. Europe - Military policy. 2. Arms control - Europe.

I. Croft, Stuart. II. Williams, Phil, 1948-

UA646.E944 1992

355.03304-dc20 92-20772

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This group of studies first appeared in a special issue on European Security without the Soviet Union in Arms Control: Contemporary Security Policy, Vol. 12, No. 3, published by Frank Cass & Co. Ltd.

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The editors would like to express their appreciation to Lynn Cohen for her valuable assistance in the preparation of the manuscript.

STUART CROFT and PHIL WILLIAMS

The tectonic shifts in the security landscape in Europe since the summer of 1989 have been bewildering in both their speed and intensity. The disappearance of the Warsaw Pact, the withdrawal of a large proportion of Soviet forces from eastern Europe, the independence and democratization of the central and the east European states, the reunification of Germany, the outbreak of war in Yugoslavia, the progress of western Europe towards the creation of a single market and a political union, and the Paris accords on arms control, conflict prevention, and crisis management measures have contributed to a fundamental change in the landscape of European security. These changes have also created a great deal of conceptual confusion and uncertainty about the future direction of the European This is hardly surprising. Coming as they did at the end of a period in which, as Raymond Aron once remarked, history appeared to have been frozen, developments in Europe have moved with astonishing rapidity. As a result, western European and US policy makers have had to confront some fundamental questions:

Against this background, a conference on European Security: Towards 2000 was held in September 1991 at the University of Pittsburgh, sponsored by the Strategic Studies Institute of the US Army War College and the Ridgway Center for International Security Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. The aim of the conference was to explore the changing patterns of security in Europe in the aftermath of the revolutions of 1989 in central and eastern Europe and the transformation of the Soviet Union following the failure of the August 1991 coup. Many of the presentations have been revised and updated, and are published in this special issue of Arms Control.