From Cold War to Democratic Peace: Third Parties, Peaceful Change, and the OSCE (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780815630074)

On November 19, 1990, the participating states of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) gathered in Paris to sign the Charter of Paris and celebrate an end to the Cold War. How did the thirty-five CSCE countries, which included the United States, Canada, and all of Western and Eastern Europe (except Albania), the Soviet Union, and the neutral and nonaligned states, escape the clutches of the Cold 'War without a violent confrontation, a devastating conventional war, or even a nuclear holocaust? Janie Leatherman argues that by forging an understanding of cooperative security and embracing the protection of human rights, the primacy of democratic government, and free market economies, the CSCE led the participating states from Cold War confrontation toward a democratic peace.

Author: Janie Leatherman
ISBN-10: 0815630077
ISBN-13: 9780815630074
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Language: English
Published: 12/01/2003
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.50h x 6.46w x 0.85d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 07/01/2004 pg. 2121