Geopolitics in Post-Wall Europe

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.

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.

Introduction - Ola TunanderPART ONE: A NEW EUROPEAN ORDER: GENERAL TENDENCIESPost-Cold War Europe - Ola Tunander A Synthesis of a Bipolar Friend-Foe Structure and a Hierarchic Cosmos-Chaos Structure?Obstinate and Obsolete - Pierre Hassner Non-Territorial Transnational Forces versus the European Territorial StateImperial Metaphors - Ole Waever Emerging 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 Hunter Emerging Patterns of Conflict and CooperationPART TWO: RUSSIA AND THE WEST - FROM COLD WAR TO A `COLD PEACE¿?The Geopolitics of Delineating `Russiä and `Europe¿ - Iver B Neumann The Creation of the `Other¿ in European and Russian TraditionRussiäs Departure from Empire - Pavel K Baev Self-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 Cviic Notes Towards a Provisional AssessmentLasting Peace in Bosnia? Politics of Territory and Identity - Victoria Ingrid EinagelConcluding Remarks - Edward Mortimer