Publication

This monograph argues that the post-cold war campaign for European Commission (EC) completion has diverted Western attention from two more important and immediate concerns: the eastward and southward extension of the West European "zone of peace" and the articulation and defense of common West European values and interests in the world community. Specifically, it will be argued that the Maastricht Treaty has actually made it harder for the nations of Western Europe to develop programs of economic and cultural reconciliation with the governments of Central Europe and the southern Mediterranean at a strategic moment in European history. It will also argue that the "civilian" values which have become an integral part of the EC's identify have undermined the efforts of West European governments to play a positive role during the Persian Gulf conflict and the crisis in Yugoslavia.