Conceptual and Institutional Adaptation of Security: Redefining NATO's Role Identity and Strategy in the New European Condition

This article is about how change at the international system level hasproduced those political outcomes rcIatcd to sccurity and defence desil:,rnin theı990s Europe. il is both a description and evaluation of the way theEuropean security arcna has changcd as wcll as an attcmpt to comc to termswith the process that kd ta 'internalisation' of system change. By using theterm 'internalisation' we mcan the process, or better, the causal reJationshipbetwccn system change and policy response. Our argument is that the natureof the post-Cold War systemic reality has bccn instrumental in sustainingand even inereasing actars' faith in co-opcrative frameworks and in furthercollcctive behaviour and interaction in European sccurity and defence. 

Conceptual and Institutional Adaptation of Security: Redefining NATO's Role Identity and Strategy in the New European Condition

This article is about how change at the international system level hasproduced those political outcomes rcIatcd to sccurity and defence desil:,rnin theı990s Europe. il is both a description and evaluation of the way theEuropean security arcna has changcd as wcll as an attcmpt to comc to termswith the process that kd ta 'internalisation' of system change. By using theterm 'internalisation' we mcan the process, or better, the causal reJationshipbetwccn system change and policy response. Our argument is that the natureof the post-Cold War systemic reality has bccn instrumental in sustainingand even inereasing actars' faith in co-opcrative frameworks and in furthercollcctive behaviour and interaction in European sccurity and defence.