No. 177: European Security After the 2014 Watershed

Author(s): Andreas Wenger
Editor(s): Christian Nünlist
Series: CSS Analyses in Security Policy
Issue: 177
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich
Publication Year: 2015

The year 2014 marked a watershed in European Security. Thesimultaneous nature of the crises in the East and South constitutes a challenge to the vision of an integrative and liberal security order. The realignment of this order must take place in the field of tension between West, East, and South. European Security will return to a more transatlantic format in which European ambitions are scaled down and which will be more national and minilateral in practice.

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