Download or read book Comprehensive Security for the Baltic written by Arthur H Westing and published by SAGE Publications Limited. This book was released on 1989-11 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprehensive Security for the Baltic explores the extent to which regional cooperation on environmental protection and natural-resource utilization serves as a confidence-building measure that fosters comprehensive international security. The contributors first provide an overview of the concept of regional political security and the extent to which environmental security might contribute to the former. They then give a detailed overview of the Baltic, examining the formal mechanisms and organizations for regional environmental cooperation, and formulating the means for building regional confidence. Finally they consider the extent to which regional security contributes to a sustainable future, not only at the regio