ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the roles of war, military institutions and military values in the new Europe of the 1990s and beyond. It presents the sake of brevity and clarity, in the form of a number of theses that attempt to point up the radical changes that are taking place in European society, politics and culture. Indeed war, although known to most societies in most periods in all parts of the world, has played a decisive role in the very origins of modern European and Western civilization. Nineteenth-century sociology was deeply imbued, moreover, with the aura of automatic industrial progress that dominated western European societies in the century without major war. The post-Cold War situation is one in which social movements and national politics intersect at all levels with international relations. The post-Cold War situation is one in which social movements and national politics intersect at all levels with international relations.
