New security challenges : the adaptation of international institutions ; reforming the UN, NATO, EU and CSCE since 1989 ; [a publication of the Center on Transatlantic Foreign and Security Policy Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, Department of Political

Joint Inspection Unit in Geneva who gave me valuable assistance in procuring documentation. During the days of the East-West conflict, international institutions and organisations were part of international life, whether as intra-bloc institutions (WFO, COMECON, NATO, EC etc.) or as global or all-European ones (UN, CSCE). With the fundamental ideological and political divide gone the question arises: are there new prospects for fresh attempts to address the common problems and challenges by cooperation through international institutions? The old institutions must be transformed and adapted to the new requirements in order to realise the new opportunities for cooperative problem and conflict solving: in comparison with the past, institutionalised cooperation must incorporate new policy areas, competencies, instruments and decision-making procedures for a functional and politically adequate and effective handling of the institutions' list of tasks. This process of institutional adjustment in itself is a process of international bargaining. Asymmetries of concerns and the resulting differences of interests in a given policy area most likely go along with varying positions and preferences regarding institutional innovation. The articles of this volume address changes of international organisations which were in different ways directly linked to the East-West conflict, i. e. the United Nations, the CSCE, NATO and the EU. Which institutional adjustments have occurred within the various frameworks? Which institutional qualities have evolved, and what political significance can be expected by the institutions today or after the process of adjustment to the new international realities will have been more or less completed? Front Matter....Pages 1-10 New Security Challenges and Institutional Change: Introduction....Pages 11-17 Reforming the United Nations: Achievements and Shortcomings....Pages 19-63 Preparing the UN Council for the New Millennium: Renaissance on the East River?....Pages 65-84 The “Old” and the “New” CSCE — Institutional Quality and Political Meaning....Pages 85-122 Nato Reform: Alliance Policy and Co-Operative Security....Pages 123-151 The Common Foreign and Security Policy of the European Union: Words or Deeds?....Pages 153-177 Small States and the Security Structures of Europe: The Search for Security after the Cold War....Pages 179-201 Résumé: Reforming International Security Institutions Since 1989/90....Pages 203-213

The articles of this volume address changes of international organizations that were in different ways directly linked to the East-West conflict.

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Seven articles prepared for a panel at the International Studies Association annual conference in Washington, D.C. March to April 1994. They share no common theoretical framework, but a common set of questions about the empirical processes of institutional adjustment to the continuing fundamental change in the international environment. Most focus on one of the four organizations, but one looks at the impact on small states. An introduction has been added. No index. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Ingo Peters, Editor. A Publication Of The Center On Transatlantic Foreign And Security Policy Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, Department Of Political Science--p. Facing T.p. Includes Bibliographical References. The fiftieth anniversary of the United Nations was heralded with great fanfare and celebrated by more than 140 heads of State and other leaders in New York on 24 October 1995.