Download or read book Toward a New Euro-Atlantic "hard" Security Agenda written by Dmitriĭ Trenin and published by CSIS. This book was released on 2008 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "hard" security issues, which are the subject of this report, are embedded within the political layer, but are widely discussed at the "chattering" level and virtually ignored down below. Immediately after the end of the East-West confrontation, they were almost consigned to history books, along with the very notion of "European security," only to be rediscovered several years later. Actually, there are two classes of security issues. One represents problems between Russia and its nominal partners in North America and Europe, and the other, common challenges to both the West and Russia. Thus, the Euro-Atlantic security agenda can only be complex and, in some parts, controversial.