TY - GEN T1 - Redefining European security T2 - Garland reference library of social science ; T2 - Garland reference library of social science. Contemporary issues in European politics ; A2 - Hodge, Carl Cavanagh LA - English PP - New York PB - Garland YR - 1999 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocm50875216 AB - Redefining European Securityis a collection of essays concerned with changing perspectives on peace and political stability in Europe since the end of the Cold War, in both the "hard" security terms of military capacity and readiness and in the realm of "soft" security concerns of economic stability and democratic reform. European governments, the European Union, and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization are dealing with the fundamental problem of determining the very parameters of Europe, politically, economically, and institutionally. This book defines security as the efforts undertaken by national governments and multilateral institutions, beginning with the end of the Cold War and the reunification of Germany, to continue to protect European populations from acts of war and politically-motivated violence in light of the dissolution of the imminent political threat posed to Western Europe by the Soviet Union, 1945-1991 Together these essays assess the progress made in Europe towardpreventing conflict, as well as in ending conflict when it occurs, after the abrupt passing of a situation in which the source and nature of a conflict were highly predictable and the emergence of new circumstances in which potential security threats are multiple, variable, and difficult to measure. Contemporary Europe is a mixture of old and new, of arrested and accelerated history. Europe's governments and institutions have been only partly successful in meeting new security challenges, to a high degree because of failing unity and political will. "Yesterday, Europe only just avoided perishing from imperial follies and frenzied ideologies," wrote the late Raymond Aron in 1976, "she could perish tomorrow through historical abdication." OP - 372 CN - UA646 .R34 1999eb SN - 0203906748 SN - 9780203906743 SN - 9780815327912 SN - 0815327919 SN - 9780815327929 SN - 0815327927 KW - National security : Europe. KW - Europe : Defenses. KW - World politics : 1989- KW - Europe : DeĢfense. KW - Politique mondiale : 1989- KW - TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING : Military Science. KW - HISTORY : Military : Other. KW - Military readiness KW - National security KW - World politics KW - Europe KW - Since 1989 ER -