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Much has happened in Europe since the Cold War ended and this century’s last decade began: the war in the Persian Gulf, the unification of Germany, the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Maastricht treaty, the conflicts that have accompanied the disintegration of Yugoslavia and the rise of new states elsewhere in the continent, and even the resurgence of a neo-communist political leadership that had been assumed dead when the 1990s opened. Initially, the states of Europe and the European Union (EU) — to which fifteen of them belong — had claimed that their time had come. ‘This is the hour of Europe’, it was said, ‘not the hour of the Americans’.1 Events, however, have proven otherwise.
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John L. Harper, American Visions of Europe: Franklin D. Roosevelt, George P. Kennan, and Dean G. Acheson (Cambridge: Cambridge Uni-versity Press, 1995).
Simon Serfaty, ‘History, Hysteria and Hyperboles’, in Jeffrey Simon (ed.), NATO: The Challenge of Change (Washington DC: National Defense University Press, 1993)
‘Fragile Peace’, in Charles L. Berry (ed.), The Search for Peace in Europe (Washington, DC: National Defense University Press, 1993).
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See George Ross, ‘A Community Adrift: The Crisis of Confidence in Western Europe’, Harvard International Review, 16 (Summer 1994) 14
Franco Ferrarotti, ‘The Italian Enigma’, Géopolitique, 38 (Summer 1992) 201Y
Simon Serfaty, ‘All in the Family’, Current History, 93 (November 1994) 353–57.
Eugene Weber, ‘Nationalism and the Politics of Resentment’, American Scholar, 63 (Summer 1994) 421–28.
Ezra Suleiman, ‘Change and Stability in French Elites’, in Gregory Flynn (ed.), Remaking the Hexagon (Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1995) 165
Especially coming from this author. See, for example, ‘An Ascendant Europe’, Harvard International Review, (1983) and Taking Europe Seriously (New York: St Martin’s Press, 1992); also, ‘Refashioning Space and Security in Europe’, in Daniel N. Nelson (ed.), After Authoritarianism (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1995).
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Simon Serfaty, ‘Half Before Europe, Half Past NATO’, The Washington Quarterly, 18 (March–April 1995) 49–58.
Calls for making the Article 5 of the Washington Treaty ‘looser and less automatic’ are hardly a solid foundation for the ‘Atlantic Union’ that accompanies some of these calls. Charles A. Kupchan, ‘Reviving the West’, Foreign Affairs, 75 (May–June 1996), 100.
Stanley R. Sloan, NA TO’s Future: Beyond Collective Defense, (Washington, DC: Congressional Research Service, 1995), pp. 30–32.
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Serfaty, S. (1997). NATO at Sixty: Quests for Western Security in a Changed Europe. In: Clemens, C. (eds) NATO and the Quest for Post-Cold War Security. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-26000-3_2
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