Buffer or highway: cyclical patterns of security development in East Central Europe.
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Authors
Walker, Duncan Hughitt
Subjects
Buffer
Violent Birth
Longterm East- West Contest
Specific Security Phases
Factors on Formation
Factors on Decline
CSCE
Membership in NATO
Economic Dislocations
Ethnic Violence
Violent Birth
Longterm East- West Contest
Specific Security Phases
Factors on Formation
Factors on Decline
CSCE
Membership in NATO
Economic Dislocations
Ethnic Violence
Advisors
Minott-Kennedy, Rodney
Date of Issue
1992-06
Date
Publisher
Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School
Language
en_US
Abstract
Since 1919, security foundations and specific architecture in East Central Europe have
followed a repetitive cycle of policy behavior on behalf of the external power placed by
circumstances into a position of preponderant influence within the region. This cycle of
policy behavior contains elements of initial success, as well as of eventual failure.
Exposing the two contradictory elements of this repetitive cycle, by disclosing a consistent
pattern contained in selected variables, and then understanding the relationship between
the current security environment in East Central Europe and traditional security conditions
is the task of this analysis. This relationship suggests that the United States and its
Western European allies should exercise caution and restraint with regard to formal
integration of East Central Europe within the common security institutions of the West.
The process of integration should be limited to informal or symbolic measures which
encourage economic and political development, but which retain East Central Europe as
a buffer between Western Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States.
Type
Thesis
Description
Series/Report No
Department
National Security Affairs (NSA)
Organization
Naval Postgraduate School
Identifiers
NPS Report Number
Sponsors
Funder
Format
138 p.;28 cm.
Citation
Distribution Statement
Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.