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Informationen zum Autor 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 . Klappentext 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'. Zusammenfassung This text deciphers and explains the geopolitics of Europe! putting an emphasis on the relation between politics! culture and territory! and on the major geopolitical and cultural shifts which affect the relation between security! identity and territory. 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 `Russiä and `Europe¿ - Iver B Neumann The Creation of the `Other¿ in European and Russian Tradition Russiäs 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 ...
