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This paper discusses challenges to Europe's security in the 21st century. The author details how a series of post-Cold War European crises threaten regional stability and urgently need to be addressed by policymakers on both sides of the Atlantic. The paper concludes that the decline of the welfare state, the crisis of the European political system, and the erosion of the nation-state are trends largely independent of economic conditions and with their own, distinct momentum. The author states that if such problems further converge, they could herald an era of social change and political instability.