Désarmement régional en Europe et sécurité collective

Abstract

Conventional Disarmament in Europe and Collective Security, by Jean Klein Considered by the Charter of the United Nations as a way to promote world wide collective security, disarmament became during the East-West confrontation one of the means to stabilize the military balance between the two alliances. Nevertheless, the talks on mutual and balanced force réductions in Central Europe (MBFR) were a failure and an agreement on conventional forces in Europe could only be concluded after the changes in Soviet Foreign Policy under Gorbatchev and the desintégration of the Warsaw Pact Organisation. Although the Paris treaty on conventional forces has only a limited significance it responds to the Western concerns and is a first step towards a multilateral agreement linked to the CSCE process.