Ending Europe's wars
Subtitle: the continuing search for peace and security
By: Jonathan Dean.
Contributors: Twentieth Century Fund.; Union of Concerned Scientists.
Publisher: Twentieth Century Fund Press
Published: 1994
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 441
Subjects: National security -- Europe.; Europe -- Politics and government -- 1989-; Europe -- Defenses.
Description: In Ending Europe's Wars, Jonathan Dean, a widely recognized expert on European security issues, evaluates the prospects for peace in Europe as a test case for world security.

Dean analyzes the current and potential conflicts in Europe and assesses the performance of the multilateral security institutions active in Europe - the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE), the Western European Union (WEU), and the United Nations itself - in coping with these challenges.

He presents a wide range of innovative proposals for dealing with continuing nuclear dangers in Russia, for bringing NATO, WEU, and CSCE together in a single effective European security organization, and for defusing the ethnic hatreds that have already caused at least five bloody wars.

Ending Europe's Wars traces the dramatic course of change in Europe - perestroika, the liberation of Eastern Europe, the collapse of the Soviet Union - to uncover the roots of today's problems. The author shows how these positive developments have also brought real or potential threats to European security: the Russian confrontation with Ukraine; the uncertainties surrounding Russian military intervention in neighboring republics; the possibility that Russia's nuclear arsenal could get out of control; massive population movements sparking racism and intolerance in Western Europe; tragic, unresolved ethnic conflicts in the former Yugoslavia and the states bordering Russia; a resurgent Germany; and growing confrontation with fundamentalist Islam.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 389-416) and index.
"A Twentieth Century Fund book."
"Published in association with the Union of Concerned Scientists."
Map of Europe on endpapers.