New Forms of Security: Views from Central, Eastern and Western Europe

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.