Geopolitics in Post-Wall Europe

Security, Territory and Identity
1. Auflage 1997
ISBN: 978-0-7619-5549-8
Verlag: Sage Publications

Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 596 g

Reihe: International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO)

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'.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tunander, Ola

Baev, Pavel

Einagel, Victoria Ingrid

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Geopolitik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Ost-West Beziehungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction - Ola Tunander
PART ONE: A NEW EUROPEAN ORDER: GENERAL TENDENCIES
Post-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 State
Imperial Metaphors - Ole Waever
Emerging European Analogies to Pre-Nation-State Imperial Systems
Nation States and Empires in the Current Process of European Change - Uffe [sl]Ostergaard
Europe's Relations with the Muslim World - Shireen T Hunter
Emerging Patterns of Conflict and Cooperation
PART TWO: RUSSIA AND THE WEST - FROM COLD WAR TO A `COLD PEACE'?
The Geopolitics of Delineating `Russia' and `Europe' - Iver B Neumann
The Creation of the `Other' in European and Russian Tradition
Russia's Departure from Empire - Pavel K Baev
Self-Assertiveness and a New Retreat
Possible Scenarios for Geopolitical Shift in Russian-European Relations - Yuriy Borko
PART THREE: THE BALKANS: BETWEEN EUROPE AND THE `OTHER'
The New Balance of Power in South-Eastern Europe - Christopher Cviic
Notes Towards a Provisional Assessment
Lasting Peace in Bosnia? Politics of Territory and Identity - Victoria Ingrid Einagel
Concluding Remarks - Edward Mortimer

Über Autor(innen)

Baev, Pavel
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.