Einzelstück 14 - ENDpapers 14: International Terrorism & International Law

The collapse of the Reykjavik summit meeting was felt nowhere more keenly than in Europe, the most heavily militarized continent in the world. Europeans have no reason to go to war with one another, but the division of their region into blocs has brought with it the deployment of nuclear arsenals, and the danger that conflict might spill back into the European region from any one of numerous "hot spots" around the world. In Iceland the two great power leaders negotiated alone. There was no European presence in their talks, even though the future of our continent was one of the chips on the bargaining table. [...] (Editorial)