A European Security Architecture After the Cold War

The development of a European security architecture, comprising NATO, the EU, the WEU and the OSCE, provides a critical account of the re-projection and redefinition of western values and institutions since the Cold War. This transformation is explored in three stages. The first stage covers the period 1990-91 and explains the preservation of a western security community inherited from the Cold War, through a process of institutional reconstruction. The second stage from 1991 to 1992 sees the incorporation of a purpose for these institutions as a framework for the implementation of collective security. The third stage explores the emerging questions of legitimacy surrounding the new tasks of these institutions as they become embroiled in the war in the former Yugoslavia. The precedents of legitimate intervention in upholding democracy, free markets and human rights since the Cold War are examined from the perspectives of international law and Gramscian-derived concepts of legitimacy, focusing on the acceptance of military power by civil society, and how intervention in these terms becomes a cultural practice.

ISBN 0333719263   Pages 336 ISBN13 9780333719268 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 632 Publisher Palgrave Macmillan   Published in Basingstoke Imprint Palgrave Macmillan   Height (mm) 225 Format Hardback   Width (mm) 145 Publication date 05 Jun 2000   Spine width (mm) 25 DEWEY 327.116094   Academic level Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly DEWEY edition DC21

		Preface
		Acknowledgements
		Glossary
		Introduction		1
1		The Legitimacy of a Western Security Community		17
1.1		A western security community		17
1.2		The concepts of hegemony, strategic culture and legitimacy		26
1.3		The preservation of the western security community regime		36
2		Redefining European Security Institutions after the Cold War: the Preliminary Stage, 1990-91		44
2.1		NATO's political reconstitution		50
2.2		A pan-European concept: the CSCE		63
2.3		The erosion of theatre nuclear forces in Europe		66
2.4		The birth of the European Union: blueprints for a Common Foreign and Security Policy		79
		Conclusion		85
3		From Collective Defence to Collective Security: the Second Stage, 1991-92		89
3.1		The impact of the Gulf War		97
3.2		Opening shots in Yugoslavia: the summer of the Croatian and Slovenian wars and the mediation efforts of the EC and the CSCE		118
3.3		The EC's recognition of the breakaway Yugoslav republics: an exertion of legitimacy in the international system, and its effects on the western security community		137
3.4		The road to the CSCE Helsinki summit: creating a framework for collective security		149
		Conclusion		159
4		The Legitimacy of a Collective Security System: The Third Stage		165
4.1		Blurry concepts of international law and intervention in Bosnia-Hercegovina		180
4.2		NATO and the UN in Bosnia: the end of interlocking institutions?		195
		Conclusion		226
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