ABSTRACT
More than a decade has passed since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the start of a transformation in European and Eurasian security. The collapse of the Soviet Union barely two years later made this great conversion irreversible. The dominant Cold War threats of large-scale conventional and thermonuclear war receded. And the map of Europe and central Eurasia changed dramatically with the unification of Germany, the expansion of NATO, the restoration of fully sovereign states in Central Europe, and the creation of new states from the ruins of old in the former Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union.
