European Polyphony: Perspectives beyond East-West Confrontation

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xv

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2. Introduction: A New Europe? The Menu

   • Elzbieta Tromer

   Pages 1-15

3. The Future of Western European Security

   • Barry Buzan

   Pages 16-45

4. The Security Debate in the Evangelical Church of the GDR

   • Helmut Fritzsche

   Pages 46-60

5. The New Peace Movement and European Security

   • Mary Kaldor

   Pages 61-72

6. Non-military Aspects of Security: The View of a Soviet Scholar

   • Pavel Podlesnyi

   Pages 73-84

7. The Pledge of Allegiance and the Test of Alliance

   • Janet Finkelstein

   Pages 85-98

8. A French View of European Security

   • Dominique David

   Pages 99-109

9. The Debate on European Security in Poland

   • Marek Grela

   Pages 110-120

10. The Debate on European Security in the United Kingdom

    • Michael Clarke

    Pages 121-140

11. European Security: Hungarian Interpretations, Perceptions and Foreign Policy

    • László J. Kiss

    Pages 141-153

12. A Hungarian Concept of Security

    • Pierre Lemaitre

    Pages 154-167

13. Common Security Versus Western Security Cooperation? The Debate on European Security in the Federal Republic of Germany

    • Berthold Meyer

    Pages 168-185

14. Conceptions of Détente and Change: Some Non-military Aspects of Security Thinking in the FRG

    • Ole Wæver

    Pages 186-224

15. The Debate on European Security in Bulgaria

    • Nansen Behar

    Pages 225-232

16. Finland and European Security: Traditions and Responses to Current Challenges

    • Pertti Joenniemi

    Pages 233-249

17. Perspectives on the Swedish Debate: With Particular Reference to the New Cold War Debate Between Social Democrats and Conservatives in the Early 1980s

    • Erik Noreen

    Pages 250-268

18. The Debate on European Security in Denmark

    • Ole Karup Pedersen

    Pages 269-282

19. Conflicts of Vision: Visions of Conflict

    • Ole Wæver

    Pages 283-325

20. Back Matter

    Pages 327-334

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This study deals with the internal socio-political changes that the traditional political structures have not been able to incorporate, the perspectives of the superpowers and surveys of the debate on European security in each of 11 states. The book begins and ends with a theoretical overview.

• Europe
• Front
• realism
• Superpower

• Centre for Peace and Conflict Research, Copenhagen, Denmark

  Ole Wæver

• Institute of Political Science, University of Aarhus, Denmark

  Ole Wæver

• Centre for Peace and Conflict Research, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

  Pierre Lemaitre, Elzbieta Tromer

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