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The revolution in Eastern Europe had raised some fundamental questions about existing European security affiliations and institutions. In 1990, the Warsaw Pact appeared to be disintegrating, and there were indications that the Soviet Union wished to transform the Warsaw Pact alliance from a military into a political institution. Gorbachev spoke of the Warsaw Pact as having a future as a political consultative organisation, but in the West, there was much scepticism whether there was enough common ground to hold the organisation together (Sloan, 1990, p. 6).
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Cooper, L. (1999). Russia and NATO. In: Russia and the World. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230373990_8
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