SIPRI YEARBOOK 1997

5. Europe: in search of cooperative security*
Adam Daniel Rotfeld

Three basic issues were on the European security agenda in 1996: the transformation and eastward enlargement of NATO and the EU; the transatlantic partnership, including the role of the USA in the security system taking shape in Europe and the European pillar of NATO; and establishing the conceptual framework of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) model for European security for the 21st century. Some headway was made on these issues but no definitive agreements were reached.

No single organization - whether NATO, the EU, the OSCE or the Council of Europe - can handle the whole European security process.Although the need for a new type of pan-European system is repeatedly acknowledged in official documents, priority has, in practice, been given to the US concept of a new Atlantic community and to the enlargement of NATO and the EU. Instead of focusing on their structures and procedures, security-related organizations and institutions should be striving for greater cooperation.

Appendix 5A contains documents from the OSCE Lisbon Summit and the Document adopted by the States Parties to the CFE Treaty on the Scope and Parameters of the Process Commissioned in paragraph 19 of the Final Document of the First CFE Review Conference.