Geopolitics in Post-Wall Europe

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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 analyses the major geopolitical shifts in the connection between security and identity.
Part 1 covers the general geopolitical tendencies in Europe, including conflicts between 'culturalism' and universalism, between national-romantic priomordialism and cosmopolitan post-national identities, and between territory and escape from territory. Part II 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 III focuses on the borderland between Europe, Russia and the Muslim world, with particular emphasis on the former Yugoslavia as a site of conflict between the new 'metaphorical empires'.
While this book is written primarily for... Tovább

Fülszöveg

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 analyses the major geopolitical shifts in the connection between security and identity.
Part 1 covers the general geopolitical tendencies in Europe, including conflicts between 'culturalism' and universalism, between national-romantic priomordialism and cosmopolitan post-national identities, and between territory and escape from territory. Part II 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 III focuses on the borderland between Europe, Russia and the Muslim world, with particular emphasis on the former Yugoslavia as a site of conflict between the new 'metaphorical empires'.
While this book is written primarily for scholars and students of political science, international relations and political geography, it will also be of interest to diplomats and journalists.
Ola Tunander is a Senior Research Fellow and Coordinator of the Foreign and Security Policy Programme at the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO). He is the author and editor of several books including Cold Water Politics: The Maritime Strategy and Geopolitics of the Northern Front (Sage, 1989) and The Barents Region: Cooperation in Arctic Europe (co-editor. Sage, 1994). Pavel Baev is a senior Research Fellow at PRIO and the Head of the Section for Military-Political Studies at the Institute of Europe, Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow. Among the several books he has written are The Russian Army in a Time of Troubles (Sage, 1996) and Russia's Policies in the Caucausus (RIIA,1997). He is also co-editor of Security Dialogue. Victoria Ingrid Einagel is a Research Fellow affiliated with the international Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO). Her doctoral dissertation at the University of Oslo is on identity politics and territory in the Yugoslav wars, 1991-95. Her master's thesis was on the issue of nationalism and the birth of the Croatian State.
Cover by Tony Stocks Vissza