title: HELSINKI MODEL FOR SOUTH ASIAN SECURITY: PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS
abstract: No continent witnessed so much of physical and material destruction in the two World Wars as Europe. The post Second World War settlements reached at the Yalta and Potsdam conferences merely guaranteed fragile peace for the coming 30 years because the European countries from 1945-75 managed to avert the outbreak of war without a meaningful security framework. However, the price to maintain an armed peace was quite heavy: the continent was divided into two armed camps and the deepening of Cold Wa