Külpolitika - A Magyar Külügyi Intézet elméleti-politikai folyóirata - 1990 (17. évfolyam)
1990 / 1. szám - A tanulmányok angol nyelvű tartalmi kivonata
litary technology. The agricultural reform had a controversial effect too, on the army. As regards the reforms within the army it surveys in part the change of domestic structure, the issues of cadre policy (juvenile training, introduction of stripes) the traning of soldiers for civilian trade, and the growing involvement of the war industry in civilian production. At last the author emphasies that a number of moves taken in the reform process affect the army controversially and despite of it cannot be unanimously called an anti-reformist force. The shaping of a modern, depoliticised army will be a process, and in the course of that left- wing manifestations by the army are not ruled out. Ferenc Gazdag Foreign policy integration in Western Europe (About European Political Cooperation) After the Single European Act which set the goal of establishing a united domestic market has been made public, the closer and broader vicinity of the European Communities watched the way integration progressed with increasing attention. Foreign policy cooperation between the states of Western Europe had proved to be an area of development which had not been treated too kindly although the European Political Cooperation had grown to be the second pillar of integration by these days. In connection with this decentralised, intergovernmental form of cooperation, one of the key issues is to assess the extent and character of foreign policy integration. In the author’s assessment, European Political Cooperation is a new phenomenon in the history of modern European diplomacy. This declared diplomacy developed to the standard of the economic integration of the region in this framework, and was legally formulated in the Single European Act which not only appears capable of integrating national interests, but also appears fit for mobility between growing interdependent international structures. The affected states of Western Europe have come to realise that coordinated steps are more fruiful than to remain in the frameworks of national states, and the legal- structural building of European Political Cooperation is the practical result of political realisation. As a matter of course, the individual states in the integration take part in the activity of EPC on the basis of different intersts, and these differing national interests also mark the natural borders of foreign policy integration. But because west European integration has stepped beyond this point at present — both in the sphere of the economy and foreign policy — where it could still be reversible. therefore EPC can be regarded as one of the mechanisms moderating the centrifugal trends of the region. The essay prosents the operational mechanisms of EPC, surveys the relationship between economic and foreign policy integration, as well as the points of contact between the EC and EPC in the 1986 Single European Act. It points out that the matter of military security is the most delicate area of west European foreign policy cooperation. Its conclusion is that although the existing international structures do not favour the idea of establishing an integrated west European defence, EPC will be a one-armed organisation as long as the issues of security are out of its sphere of competence. Csaba Mohi The foundations of integration objectives aimed at creating a united community inner market The main objective of the united community inner market being launched legally in a structural system on January 1, 1993 is to do away with the still existing physical, technical and financial obstacles within the European Communities (European Economic Community, EURATOM, European Coal and Steel Community), and as a result VII
