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In the 1990s it has become a cliché, but true nonetheless, that it is necessary to reevaluate the concept of security, since it is clear that the antagonisms that defined the nature and scope of security for a generation have been significantly assuaged. On 19 November 1990 in Paris, for example, the member states of North Atlantic Treaty Organisation and the Warsaw Treaty Organisation signed a joint declaration ‘affirming the end of the era of division and confrontation which has lasted for more than four decades’. They solemnly declared that ‘in the new era of European relations which is beginning, they are no longer adversaries, will build new partnerships and extend to each other the hand of friendship’. The signatories affirmed their ‘obligation and commitment to refrain from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state’ and recognised that ‘security is indivisible and that the security of each of their countries is inextricably linked to the security of all the States participating in the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe’.1
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Salmon, T.C. (1996). The Nature of International Security. In: Carey, R., Salmon, T.C. (eds) International Security in the Modern World. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-10772-8_1
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