The Changing European Security Context and the Nordic Region: A View from Germany

Helga Haftendorn

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1990, vol. 512, issue 1, 173-187

Abstract: The situation in Europe is changing so fast that any statement, however carefully made, is bound to be overtaken by events. This is especially true for the structures of European security and for the evolving process of German unification. Europe might enter a period of military stability and political change. The peaceful revolution in East Germany and the call by its people for speedy reunification have forced the question of the future of the two German states back on the international agenda. The long-term prospect is for an expansion of a somewhat more loosely knit Western system of collective security to which a unified Germany would belong. The impact on the Nordic region would be significant: instead of providing a Northern support for the Atlantic Alliance, the Nordic region would become a halfway house between East and West or a building block for an all-European security structure in which it could find a congenial home.

Date: 1990
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DOI: 10.1177/0002716290512001016

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