Journals / Marmara Üniversitesi Avrupa Araştırmaları Enstitüsü Avrupa Araştırmaları Dergisi / 1993 / Cilt: 3 - Sayı: 1&2
THE SECURITY CHALLENGES OF EASTERN EUROPE -A THEORETICAL APPROACH AT MACRO LEVEL
- Pages
- 34–49
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Abstract
There is no doubt that the costs of the Cold War have been substantial. It inflicted oppressive political regimes on the peoples of Eastern Europe, who were denied basic human rights by their forced membership in the Soviet empire. It consumed national wealth, by giving rise to large and costly defence establishments in both East and West1 • This period has lasted for over forty years, and it was not later than the late eighties that the long lasted evolutionary process of cold war politics suddenly began to develop into the stage of revolutionary change on a world wide basis.
Özet
There is no doubt that the costs of the Cold War have been substantial. It inflicted oppressive political regimes on the peoples of Eastern Europe, who were denied basic human rights by their forced membership in the Soviet empire. It consumed national wealth, by giving rise to large and costly defence establishments in both East and West1 • This period has lasted for over forty years, and it was not later than the late eighties that the long lasted evolutionary process of cold war politics suddenly began to develop into the stage of revolutionary change on a world wide basis.