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Email this citationCIAO DATE: 05/02
Trouble in Paradise? Europe in the 21st Century
Steven Philip Kramer and Irene Kyriakopoulos
Institute for National Strategic Studies
National Defense University
March 1996
Prologue
When political observers talk about European Security, they invariably refer to the challenges Western Europe faces on its peripheries from a renationalized Russia, conflicts in the Balkans, and Islamic fundamentalism in North Africa. Rarely do they imagine that the greatest dangers to the new Europe may come from within, that the kind of stability Europe has enjoyed since World War II could be merely a passing chapter in history, not a transcendence of history. Without suggesting that there is necessarily a worst case ending, this study will argue that there is indeed a series of crises converging on post-Cold War Europe that threaten its stability and that need to be addressed by European policy makers and taken into account by Americans.
