European Security beyond the Cold War

This volume offers four pictures of one of the most vital contemporary questions in world politics: European security in the next two decades.

In his profound consideration of the forces and processes at work in the fundamental transformations that have been reshaping Europe over recent years, Adrian Hyde-Price focuses on the unification of Germany, Mikhail Gorbachev's reform programme, the accelerating pace of West European integration through the European Community, and the uncertainties surrounding America's future role in a Europe `beyond containment'. This major work outlines four `ideal types' of possible alternative security structures for the year 2010 and suggests a number of principles which should govern the construction of a new security system for a Europe beyond the cold war.