Geopolitics in Post-Wall Europe

Security, Territory and Identity

Häftad, Engelska, 1997

AvOla Tunander,Pavel Baev,Victoria Ingrid Einagel

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The fall of the Berlin Wall symbolized a dramatic turning point in the history of European politics and security. Geopolitics in Post-Wall Europe highlights the new relations between politics, culture and territory. It analyzes the major geopolitical shifts in the connection between security and identity.

Part One covers the general geopolitical tendencies in Europe, including conflicts between `culturism' and universalism, between national-romantic primordialism and cosmopolitan post-national identities, and between territory and escape from territory. Part Two deals with potential tensions between Russia and Europe and the possible emergence of a new European `wall' between an extended NATO on the one hand, and Russia and the CIS on the other. Part Three focuses on the borderland between Europe, Russia and the Muslim world, with particular emphasis on the former Yugoslavia as a site of conflict between new `metaphorical empires'.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum1997-03-18
Mått156 x 234 x 15 mm
Vikt450 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieInternational Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO)
Antal sidor272
Upplaga1
FörlagSAGE Publications
ISBN9780761955504

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Pavel Baev is a Senior Researcher and Head of Section at the Institute of Europe, Russian Academy of Sciences. He has written this book while on sabbatical leave as a researcher at the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo. He was previously a Senior Researcher at the Scientific-Research Institute of the Soviet Ministry of Defence, 1979 to 1988. His publications include Tactical Nuclear Weapons in Europe: The Problem of Reduction and Elimination. He is co-editor of the quarterly journal Security Dialogue.

Introduction - Ola TunanderPART ONE: A NEW EUROPEAN ORDER: GENERAL TENDENCIESPost-Cold War Europe - Ola TunanderA Synthesis of a Bipolar Friend-Foe Structure and a Hierarchic Cosmos-Chaos Structure?Obstinate and Obsolete - Pierre HassnerNon-Territorial Transnational Forces versus the European Territorial StateImperial Metaphors - Ole WaeverEmerging European Analogies to Pre-Nation-State Imperial SystemsNation States and Empires in the Current Process of European Change - Uffe [sl]OstergaardEurope′s Relations with the Muslim World - Shireen T HunterEmerging Patterns of Conflict and CooperationPART TWO: RUSSIA AND THE WEST - FROM COLD WAR TO A `COLD PEACE′?The Geopolitics of Delineating `Russia′ and `Europe′ - Iver B NeumannThe Creation of the `Other′ in European and Russian TraditionRussia′s Departure from Empire - Pavel K BaevSelf-Assertiveness and a New RetreatPossible Scenarios for Geopolitical Shift in Russian-European Relations - Yuriy BorkoPART THREE: THE BALKANS: BETWEEN EUROPE AND THE `OTHER′The New Balance of Power in South-Eastern Europe - Christopher CviicNotes Towards a Provisional AssessmentLasting Peace in Bosnia? Politics of Territory and Identity - Victoria Ingrid EinagelConcluding Remarks - Edward Mortimer

`The analyses are wide-ranging, anti-determinist and sensitive to culture and accident. None crudely computes power. The book is a product of passion and commitment... This makes the essays refreshing, engaging and instructive in a way unattainable by pretended objectivity′ - International Affairs`This volume is an ambitious attempt to rethink the ways in which Europe is portrayed in the discipline of International Relations... The project offers some interesting contemporary material, and some excellent individual chapters.... The contemporary examples and its eschewal of a statist framework of analysis make the book worth our attention′ - Millennium - Journal of International Studies