title: Peaceful Change in a Divided Europe
abstract: This chapter focuses on the present manifestations of peaceful historical change and their implications for the trans-Atlantic relationship. It describes some recommendations for the constructive management of peaceful change in regard to the security issue in a still-divided, but gradually changing, Europe. In contrast, communist leaders claim that history in Europe has stopped. For them, the dialectic of history has been supplanted by the paralysis of history. The top Soviet leaders in Moscow 