J. Sperling et E. Kirchner, ECONOMIC-SECURITY AND THE PROBLEM OF COOPERATION IN POST-COLD-WAR EUROPE, Review of international studies, 24(2), 1998, pp. 221-237
The end of the Cold War and the transformation of the Yalta security s
ystem generated a debate about the survivability of the postwar instit
utions of security, particularly NATO. This debate is too narrow in it
s focus. We argue that security has two mutual constitutive elements,
the political-military and the economic. The interdependence of these
two elements of the future security architecture raises a set of inter
related questions addressed in this article: What are the economic ele
ments of security? How have the changes in the European state system a
ffected the prospects for the institutionalization of security coopera
tion, broadly defined? Does a stable security architecture require the
parallel construction of the economic and military institutions of se
curity?.