The concept of security has traditionally referred to the status of sovereign states in a closed international system. In this system the state is assumed to be

This book addresses the challenges presented to the EU by an increasingly complex security environment. Through the interdisciplinary approach taken, researcher

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Originally published in 1989. Given the events of 1987 and 1988-the death of Admiral Sergei G. Gorshkov, who had served as Commander-in-Chief of the Soviet Navy