CSCE/OSCE negotiators’ visions of ideal peace and security in postmodern Europe

In this chapter we focus on responses to the last of our select open-ended questions prior to 9/11: If you could design the ideal peace and security system for Europe, what would it look like? As in Chapters 6-7, qualitative analyses of responses consisted of noting each respondent’s answer to the question, identifying common themes within each of the five groupings, and then noting dissimilar as well as common themes across groups. For the 1993 CSCE survey, this led to the results presented in Table 8.1.