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2013.
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| Summary/Abstract |
TODAY, nearly forty years after the 1975 Helsinki Final Act, European security remains one of the outstanding issues on the international agenda. The bright post-Cold War hopes that a final and mutually acceptable solution was round the corner proved futile. Very much as before mutual mistrust rules, while the governments preach widely different approaches to continental security. Satisfied with the considerable geostrategic advantages over Russia gained amid the geopolitical shifts on the continent and NATO's eastward expansion, the West sees no reason to change the highly favorable situation and upset the convenient balance of power.
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