Gülnur Aybet Livres

Security cooperation involves the creation and functioning of institutions as well as formal and informal consultations between the participating states, to harmonize national interests in the field of security. This study constitutes the first integrated analysis of all aspects of security cooperation in western Europe from 1945 to 1991. Its unique approach is that it covers all aspects of security cooperation, which range from the political -- seeking a 'European' voice in arms control; to strategic -- finding a 'European' input into NATO nuclear planning; and economic -- involving collaboration in defence technology and production. This yields a holistic picture of the dynamics of European security cooperation in each decade.A journey through these dynamics shows that western European security cooperation has taken a life of its own and evolved as a regime in its own right. It is upon this very regime that the foundations of the 'new European security architecture' are now being built. Only by looking at the development of this regime, can we understand the security requirements for Europe in the post-Cold War era.

A European Security Architecture after the Cold War provides a critical account of the re-projection and redefinition of Western values and security institutions in the post-Coldwar era. 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 largely carried out on paper. 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 in the post-coldwar era 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'.