The Changing Geopolitics of Eastern Europe

ISBN-13: 9780714682242 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 174 str.

Andrew H. Dawson; Rick Fawn

Opis

This work covers the uncertain geopolitical situation of some countries of Central and Eastern Europe, including some of those which are hoping to enter the European Union in the near future, some for which entry is far off, and some which may never seek or be eligible for membership. Attention is given to the problems arising out of economic restructuring and problems of defence. Yet, all the issues are ultimately founded in those geographic essentials that have dogged so much of Europe's modern history: the tension arising from marked differences in the standard of living between the north-west of the continent and the south and east; the way in which past migration has created significant ethnic minorities in many countries; and by the manner in which larger countries have bullied or courted their smaller neighbours.

Spis treści

An introduction: the geography and geopolitics of the new Eastern Europe, Andrew Dawson and Rick Fawn; will Europe ever be round and whole? reflections on EU enlargement after the collapse of Communism, George Blazyca; the post-socialist states in the world-economy - transformation trajectories, Michael Bradshaw; the elusive defined? Determining the contemporary contours of central Europe, Rick Fawn; Russia, NATO and the EU in an era of enlargement - vulnerability or opportunity? Martin Smith and Graham Timmins; a Polish bridge? Andrew Dawson; Albania in Europe - condemned to the periphery or beyond? Derek Hall; Romania - contemporary geopolitical perspectives, David Turnock; Russian geopolitics at the fin-de siecle, Vladimir Kolossov and Rostislav Turovsky.

O autorze

Edited by Dawson, Dr A H; Fawn, Rick