European Security

✍ Scribed by Wilfried von Bredow, Thomas Jäger, Gerhard Kümmel (eds.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 240
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The authors of this collection combine different national and institutional perspectives. They cover a broad range of subjects: new threats to Europe's security, the advantages and disadvantages of the present security architecture in Europe, the problem of nuclear weapons and their control, the options for enlargement and partnership for peace, the shifts in Europeans' public opinion about security matters, and the prospects for a European defence industry. This collection provides an incomparable synthesis of some of the most crucial problems for the emergence of Europe as an independent actor in international politics.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Public Opinion and Security Matters in Europe....Pages 3-23
Problems of Transformation of the Defence Establishments in Central and Eastern Europe....Pages 24-38
The Russian Threat — Real or Imaginary?....Pages 39-53
European Security and the Mediterranean....Pages 54-67
The European Union and Nuclear Weapons: Considerations on the European Option and Nuclear Nonproliferation Policy....Pages 68-79
The European Arms Trade: Trends and Patterns....Pages 80-99
On the Necessity of a European Defence Industry....Pages 100-113
Front Matter....Pages 115-115
Inter-Institutional Security Co-operation in Europe: Past, Present and Perspectives....Pages 117-130
The Role of the EU and WEU in European Security....Pages 131-145
Co-operative Security in the OSCE Framework: CSBMs, Emergency Mechanisms and Conflict Prevention....Pages 146-165
The Human Dimension of the OSCE: The ODIHR in Warsaw....Pages 166-179
Chances and Perspectives of a Regional Security Community in East Central Europe....Pages 180-189
Front Matter....Pages 191-191
European Contributions to Global Security....Pages 193-207
European Security in an Unsafe World....Pages 208-224
Back Matter....Pages 225-230

✦ Subjects

International Relations;Military and Defence Studies