New Security Challenges in Postcommunist Europe: Securing Europe's East

by Andrew Cottey (Author), Dereu Avere (Author), Derek Averre (Author)

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  2002

  $128.40

  This analysis of the changing patterns of international relations and new security challenges in postcommunist Central and Eastern Europe explores the changing international relations in the region and the security challenges arising from state-building and political and economic transformation. Written by leading scholars from Eastern and Western Europe, it highlights the fundamental security issues affecting Europe as the postcommunist states are drawn into the continent 's mainstream. Key themes discussed in the book include future security governance in Europe; the eastward enlargement of NATO and the EU; prospects for the creation of a pan-European security community; the dangers of dividing lines as seen from Russia and Ukraine; conflict management in Europe; new security challenges and economic security