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The New Agenda: What are the Big Questions Now?

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The anomalies that had developed within the post-war European security system by the end of the 1980s were so deep that to address them adequately was to have to rethink security policy from the ground up. This was not just a case of revising national or even alliance strategy. It was a case of managing a transition to an entirely different phase of international relations. Opinions might differ about the pace of change and about the nature of specific steps to be taken, but not, it will be argued here, about the ultimate goal of policy. This was an unprecedented state of affairs.

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  1. School of Peace Studies, University of Bradford, UK

    Oliver Ramsbotham (Research Fellow, Member of the Oxford Research Group)

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Ramsbotham, O., Miall, H. (1991). The New Agenda: What are the Big Questions Now?. In: Beyond Deterrence. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21720-5_2

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