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Email this citationCIAO DATE: 03/2004
American, European and Russian Cooperation: Security and Defence in the 21st century
Hella Pick
April 2003
Abstract
The ramifications of the Iraq crisis are provoking a wholesale reassessment of the post-1945 system of multinational institutions - ranging from the United Nations to NATO and the European Union. Underlying such concerns is America's use of power and the role it defines for itself in managing its international relations. These were the themes that dominated two days of wide-ranging discussion at this conference. The issues raised anticipated much of what has now become common currency in international debate. The conference took place while the UN Security Council was still debating a new Resolution on Iraq and before it had become clear whether further UN authorisation of military intervention in Iraq would be obtained. In any event all the participants assumed that war was imminent. Their focus was on the challenges that would emerge in the aftermath of Saddam Hussein's regime. These would extend far beyond the problems of establishing a viable democracy in Iraq, and even beyond the elusive search for an Israel-Palestinian settlement.
