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19 - Regional Security and Regional Relations

from Part Six - Present and Future Challenges

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 September 2019

Sabrina P. Ramet
Affiliation:
Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim
Christine M. Hassenstab
Affiliation:
Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim
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Summary

After the seemingly successful reordering of security in Central and Southeastern Europe after the 1989 revolutions, the conclusion of the Yugoslav wars of secession, and NATO and European Union (EU) enlargement, hard security considerations have catapulted back onto the region’s policy agenda. The EU’s Eastern Partnership, intended as a benign project to assist six post-Soviet states between the EU and Russia, instead came to threaten Russian security sensitivities. The Russian annexation of Crimea and the fomenting of violence in Ukraine’s southeast since 2014 have obliged Euro-Atlantic states and institutions to be more proactive toward securing their eastern flanks, including to the point of making new military deployments in the countries neighboring Russia. Despite this turn in European security practice, the chapter also argues that the many regional cooperation formations created since 1989 continue to provide a significant if subtle positive impact both on regional relations and more widely on those across Europe. The chapter, nevertheless, details how the most prominent initiative, Visegrad, has turned from having been a leading proponent of European values in the 1990s and an instrument for Euro-Atlantic integration to a challenger of EU values through its successful but controversial handling of the so-called migrant crisis that erupted in 2015.

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Print publication year: 2019

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Asmus, Ronald D. Opening NATO’s Door: How the alliance remade itself for a new era (New York: Columbia University Press, 2002).Google Scholar
Barany, Zoltan. The Future of NATO Expansion: Four case studies (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003).Google Scholar
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Dangerfield, Martin. Subregional Economic Cooperation in Central and Eastern Europe: The Political economy of CEFTA (Aldershot: Edward Elgar, 2000).Google Scholar
Dangerfield, Martin. “Subregional Integration and EU Enlargement: Where next for CEFTA?,” in Journal of Common Market Studies, 44(2) (2006), pp. 305324.Google Scholar
Fawn, Rick. “The Elusive Defined? Visegrad cooperation as the contemporary contours of Central Europe,” in Geopolitics, 6(1) (Summer 2001), pp. 4768.Google Scholar
Fawn, Rick. “Visegrad’s Place in the EU since Accession in 2004: ‘Western’ perceptions,” in International Issues & Slovak Foreign Policy Affairs, 23(1–2) (2014), pp. 324.Google Scholar
Fawn, Rick. “Visegrad: Fit for purpose,” in Communist and Post-Communist Studies, 46(3) (September 2013), pp. 339349.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Goldgeier, James M. Not Whether But When: The U.S. decision to enlarge NATO (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 1999).Google Scholar
Grayson, George W. Strange Bedfellows: NATO marches East (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1999).Google Scholar
Jagodziński, Andrzej (ed.). The Visegrad Group: A Central European constellation (Bratislava: International Visegrad Fund, 2006).Google Scholar
Rhodes, Matthew. Visegrad Turns Ten (Pittsburgh, PA: Center for Russia and East European Studies, University of Pittsburgh, 2003).Google Scholar

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