ABSTRACT
The cooling of Great Power relations has placed the European states in a complicated position. Detente, which opened up new prospects for European security and cooperation, has been sorely tested by the events in Afghanistan and Poland and the deployment of new weapons systems in Europe. The Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) has changed, in the initial phase of the conference, the most important issue for the European states concerned the approval of principles and rules concerning the recognition of the contemporary situation in Europe. The chapter attempts to find methodological points of reference for an examination of the entity formed by the states participating in the CSCE, particularly in the field of security. The system of entities focuses research on states' foreign and security policy, studying states' goals and capability to carry out these goals. Research objects include national interest and military, political and economic power.
