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Since the end of the Cold War, a contradiction has developed in the way security problems are approached in Europe: on the one hand, there is a generalized tendency toward multilateral solutions to vital European security problems; on the other, a renewed nationalist trend has emerged in the foreign policy focus as many states on both sides of the former Iron Curtain. But this contradiction is only apparent and can be resolved if security in Europe is redefined such that vital security interests are no longer national interests, and national security interests are no longer vital. Furthermore, West European and American security interests are more intertwined in the new geopolitical scenario that emerged from the dissolution of the Eastern bloc than they had been, and the former socialist countries increasingly share there interests as well.
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Carnovale, M. (1995). Vital and National Security Interests After the End of the Cold War. In: Carnovale, M. (eds) European Security and International Institutions after the Cold War. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-23924-5_1
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