Old and New Security Issues in Post-Communist Eastern Europe: Results of an 11 Nation Study

It [Europe] is a single entity-though it is culturally, ethnically and economically immensely diverse. For the first time in its history, this entity has an opportunity to establish an internal order on the principle of co-operation and equality among the large and the small, the strong and the weak, on shared democratic values. This is also an opportunity to put an end, once and for all, to the export of coercion and wars. Should Europe fail to grasp this opportunity, we could be heading for a new global catastrophe, a catastrophe far graver than previous ones. This time the forces of freedom would not face a single totalitarian enemy. They could well be drawn into a strange era of all against all, a war with no clear front, a war difficult to distinguish from terrorism, organised crime and other forms of wrongdoing, a war in which indirect and hidden forces would engulf the whole world. I don't mean to sound alarmist, but anyone with a modicum