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

Authors : Kostas IFANTİS

Pages : 1-21

Doi:10.1501/Intrel_0000000247

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Publication Date : 1996-05-01

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :This article is about how change at the international system level has produced those political outcomes rcIatcd to sccurity and defence desil:,rnin the ı990s Europe. il is both a description and evaluation of the way the European security arcna has changcd as wcll as an attcmpt to comc to terms with the process that kd ta `internalisation` of system change. By using the term `internalisation` we mcan the process, or better, the causal reJationship betwccn system change and policy response. Our argument is that the nature of the post-Cold War systemic reality has bccn instrumental in sustaining and even inereasing actars` faith in co-opcrative frameworks and in further collcctive behaviour and interaction in European sccurity and defence. 
Keywords : Conceptual, Institutional Adaptation, Redefining NATO