Get used to saying CSCE. [Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe]
The political transformation of Europe in the late 1980s has changed the thrust of the disarmament process from reducing the dangers of East-West military confrontation to including a pan-European security system. The European revolutions of 1989 have catapulted the political process years ahead of current disaramament negotiations by sweeping Central European communist parties from power, unifying Germany, and setting in motion the de facto neutralization of the Warsaw Pact. From November 19 to 21, 1990, at a summit in Paris, the heads of state of the 34 members of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) were to lay the foundations of a new European security order. They were to sign two major East-West security treaties, create the first pan-European conflict prevention center, institute a permanent council of foreign ministers, and establish a parliamentary organ, the Assembly of Europe, withint he Council of Europe. The battery of agreements will link traditional arms control and a more manageable military balance at lower force levels with the more ambitious goal of creating a new post-Cold War order based on cooperation in confidence-building, verification, and political conflict resolution. 2 refs.
- OSTI ID:
- 5403076
- Journal Information:
- Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists; (United States), Journal Name: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists; (United States) Vol. 46:9; ISSN BASIA; ISSN 0096-5243
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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