Much has been written about the various decisions to establish a new European security order based on a vision of a network of mutually reinforcing institutions. However, very little has been heard about what actually happened after the decisions were made and whether any of the good intentions expressed at the time were actually implemented.From Vision to Reality takes the reader past the fixation with political decisionmaking by focusing on the process of implementation that follows important policy decisions. The book identifies the intentions behind a collection of key policy decisions for establishing Europe’s new security order and investigates whether the implementation of those and subsequent decisions has resulted in the intended policy outcome.As well as a review of the implementations perspective, the book includes chapters on the main European security organizations (NATO, EU, WEU, OSCE, and EBRD) and on the relations between the new European security order and the UN, the United States, and Russia.