Even that perspective had to change after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Most social democratic and socialist parties in Europe have had to seriously reconsider their approach to foreign policy and also to security and military policy. Most of us have, or are about to, come around to the view that we need to be part of some sort of security arrangement in Europe, which, at the very minimum, makes it possible to ensure that the horrors of Kosovo, Srebrenica, Gorazde, etc., do not recur on the mainland of Europe.