Splitting Europe: The EU, Russia, and the West

Europe is deeply divided today, with Russia-Western relations more dangerous than ever since the Cuban missile crisis. The EU itself is divided, with Brexit and clashes within, and the Western security framework and NATO breaking down. This book aims to address and explore these historical problems.

Format: Hardback
Length: 242 pages
Publication date: 04 February 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Europe today is deeply divided, with thirty years after the end of the Cold War and the celebratory moment when the wall came down, we are faced with a new Cold War. Russia-Western relations are arguably more dangerous than ever since the Cuban missile crisis. Diplomatic relations are frozen, sanctions installed, the old arms control treaties abandoned, and new nuclear weapons and carriers developed. EU Europe itself is divided, with Brexit marking the first real break-away from the Union, and clashes within. From the yellow vests clashes with police in the heart of Paris to so-called populist movements on the rise in the periphery and across the continent. The Visegrad countries (Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, Czech Republic) are regularly at odds with the EU core (Brussels and the France-Germany axis) to a degree where the idea of sanctions is invoked. The Western security framework and NATO itself appear to break down, with Turkey, the NATO member with the organization's second-largest military numerically, now purchasing Russian weapon systems and seeking strategic relations in Eurasia.

How did it come to this and what happened with the post-Cold War dream? And what has happened to the post-world war visions of European integration and security order? What are the critical processes and events that have led us unto this path? This book aims to address and explore these historical problems.

Weight: 517g
Dimension: 228 x 161 x 20 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781538150795