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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Introduction: Human Rights and Security from the French to the East European Revolution -- PART ONE Human Rights and International Security -- 2 Security, Human Rights, and East-West Relations: Theoretical Bases of the Linkage -- 3 Human Rights, International Security, and the Crisis of Communism -- 4 A Time for Linkage? Western Leverage for Human Rights and Security in Eastern Europe -- 5 Human Rights and the Policy of Leverage and Linkage: The Lesson of the Helsinki Process -- 6 Human Rights and East-West Relations -- 7 Dilemmas in Human Rights Foreign Policy: The Case of the Netherlands -- PART TWO Human Rights and the Security of States and Societies -- 8 Old and New Soviet Thinking on Human Rights -- 9 Perestroika, Freedom, and the Rule of Law -- 10 Ethnic Rights as Human Rights: The Case of the Baltic States and Hungary -- 11 Human Rights in a Multiethnic State: The Case of Yugoslavia -- 12 Democratization in Eastern Europe: The Hopes and the Risks -- 13 Human Rights in the Transition from Authoritarian to Pluralistic Regimes -- 14 Conclusion: Human Rights and Security in a New Europe? -- About the Book -- About the Editors and Contributors -- Index.

As a medium-sized power in strategic proximity to east central Europe, Italy has sought a special role in the region following the collapse of Communist regimes there. Building on historical traditions and cultural affinities, Italy has drawn on its newly acquired economic power and important position within the European Union to develop an "Eastern" policy, for example, as originator of the Pentagonale project for regional cooperation. As a result, Italy has often been perceived by east central Europeans as a key country in their efforts to become more closely integrated with western Europe. More recently, however, both ethnic strife in the region and the collapse of Italy's own political establishment have cast doubt on the country's ability to play the role that many east central Europeans as well as Italians hope it can assume in the future European order. In this timely volume, leading European and U.S. experts examine the multifaceted dimensions of what has been in many ways a unique relationship in contemporary Europe.

This work argues that ideology was the cornerstone of the Cold War. It demonstrates that Stalin's single-minded adherence to Marxism-Leninism created an atmosphere, both domestically and internationally, of constant insecurity.