EUROPEAN SECURITY - THE END OF ARCHITECTURE AND THE NEW NATO

This article looks at the three institutions which lie at the heart of the debate about European security after the Cold War-NATO, the WEU a nd the EU-and in particular at the changing relationship between them. Focusing on the]une 1996 meeting of NATO's foreign ministers, and the development of the Combined Joint Task Force idea, this article asks how and why the European security debate developed as it did in 1996, and what a European Security and Defence Identity might actually amoun t to.