Euro-Russian Entente

Elena Dundovich is Full Professor of History of International Relations at the University of Pisa. She is an expert in the Stalinist terror and the gulag, the Soviet foreign policy and the relations between the Soviet Union and Europe, and has published several books, chapters and articles on these topics. She co-founded Memorial Italia, which has worked in collaboration with the Moscow-based human-rights organization Memorial.Simone Paoli is Associate Professor of History of International Relations at the University of Pisa. He is an expert in the history of European integration, with particular attention to social, cultural and migration-related issues, and to EU external relations. He recently served as Scientific Director of the research project Ten Years of Hopes for a New Europe: Moscow and Brussels from 1985 to 1994.

• Introduction Part 1: The Political-Diplomatic Dimension: Eastern Insights 1. From Soviet Foreign Policy to Russian Foreign Policy: Conceptual Foundations and Ideas 2. The ‘Common European Home’ as Part of Gorbachev’s New Political Thinking in Foreign Policy and Its Relevance to Represent a New Diplomatic Architecture in Europe 3. Overcoming Mutual Fears: The Novelty and Weakness of the European Perestroika Policy 4. Russia’s Alternative Voices of the Early 1990s: Missed Opportunities for a New Multilateral Security Order in Europe and Eurasia 5. Continuities and Discontinuities in the Kremlin's Policy towards the European Community/European Union Part 2: The Political-Diplomatic Dimension: Western Insights 6. The European Community and Gorbachev (1985–1991): Change of Tune, Promises and Substance 7. From the Atlantic to the Urals: Gorbachev’s Europe and Delors’ Europe 8. The European Parliament, Perestroika and the Collapse of the Soviet Union (1985–1991) 9. Anglo-American Relations and Gorbachev’s Perestroika: a Path of Convergence or Divergence? (1985–1990) 10. The Quest for a Strategic Partnership: The EU’s Policy towards Russia and the Limits of Cooperation in the Short 1990s Part 3: The Economic Dimension 11. Eastern European Debates on the Future of Europe from Gorbachev to Yeltsin: Roads Not Taken 12. Economists Assessing Russia’s Political Transition (1990-1998) 13. A Brief Survey of Italian Economic Studies on the Collapse of the USSR Part 4: The Military and Technological Dimension 14. From Euromissiles to CSDP: The EU’s Strategic Relations with Russia and the US from Brezhnev and Reagan to Putin and Trump 15. Between Doubts and Enthusiasm: ESA-USSR Scientific Cooperation during Perestroika 16. Arctic Cooperation between USSR/Russia and Northern European Countries in the Late 1980s-Early 1990s: The End of the Cold War and the Beginning of the Great Opportunities Era? 17. Challenges and Opportunities for European Security: The Eastward Expansion of the Western European Union