Post-Cold War International Security System and Europe
Post-Cold War International Security System and Europe

Author(s): Petr Vančura
Subject(s): Politics, Military history, Political history, International relations/trade, Security and defense, Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), Present Times (2010 - today)
Published by: Research Center of the Slovak Foreign Policy Association (RC SFPA)
Keywords: Post-Cold War; international situation; security; Europe;
Summary/Abstract: In what is now considered the Cold War period, the main security positioning was between the aggression of the Soviet Union and the barriers put up around it by the democratic world through the various security agreements. Of these, the agreement relevant for Europe was NATO. To refresh our memory, the European partners in NATO had to be dragged kicking and screaming by President Reagan into the final confrontation with the Soviet Union, after the policies of entente had been put firmly in place by the Europeans and President Reagan’s predecessors. The Helsinki accord of 1976 secured the borders of the Soviet-dominated realm - for ever, in the minds of Moscow strategists.

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