This research programme, started in 1991, just after the end of the cold war, analyses the factors of stability and change in the existing European security system.
Research is conducted on conventional arms control, security cooperation and CSBMs in Europe.
The Disintegration of Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union , a commissioned volume by Reneo Lukic and Allen Lynch, was published in 1996. The comparative approach of this study sheds new light not only on the similarities in the breakup of these two multi-national, federal communist states but also on the character of their political systems and describes the reactions of Western Europe and the United States. Documentation is continuously collected on the security debates in Central and East European countries, and working contacts have been established with other researchers and research institutions in the region. The first study will be on The Partnership for Peace and New Security Priorities of the Central and East European States. Dr Zdzislaw Lachowski is Project Researcher.