Uncertain Europe: Building a New European Security Order?

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of contributors......Page 8
Preface and acknowledgements......Page 11
List of abbreviations......Page 13
Map of the European Union and applicant states......Page 15
Key concepts: order, security and identity......Page 16
What security? What order?......Page 18
What does it mean to be \'European\'? The problems of constructing a pan-European identity......Page 35
The institutions......Page 56
The OSCE: crowning jewel or talking shop?......Page 58
NATO: \'West is best\'?......Page 77
The EU: coming of age as a security actor?......Page 94
The WEU: eliminating the middleman......Page 111
National and regional perspectives......Page 128
The United States: strategic vision or tactical posturing?......Page 130
France: willing the means to the end?......Page 151
The United Kingdom: between a rock and a soft place?......Page 168
Germany: a new vision of order?......Page 185
Russia: caging the bear?......Page 197
The Baltic states: bridge or barrier to the east?......Page 213
Poland: \'For Your Security and Ours\'......Page 232
South-east Europe: collision of norms and identity?......Page 243
Uncertain Europe?......Page 260
Whose Europe? Whose security?......Page 262
Index......Page 292