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.

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

`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