 The Role of Subregional Cooperation in Post-Cold War Europe: Integration, Security, DemocracyAlyson J K Bailes Chapter 9 in Subregional Cooperation in the New Europe, 1999, pp 153-183 from Palgrave Macmillan Abstract: Abstract In 1989–90, the strategic geography of continental Europe lay open for change and free creation to a degree that was most unusual in the region’s history. In Central and Eastern Europe, the bonds of the Warsaw Pact and COMECON were dropping away, Soviet forces were gone or on their way out, and the level of strategic tension along what used to be the Central Front had fallen from one of the world’s highest to one of the lowest in human memory. For the new (or more properly, restored) democracies to the east of the old Iron Curtain, there was both internal motive and external opportunity to revel in national independence and explore the full uniqueness of national identity. Our familiarity, in hindsight, with the choices these states made should not blind us to the wider range of options which was theoretically available, and actually debated, at the time. Nor should it blur recognition of how remarkable, in some ways, their choices were.2 Keywords: European Union; North Atlantic Treaty Organization; European Union Enlargement; Eastern European State; Nordic Cooperation (search for similar items in EconPapers) There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-27194-8_9 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-27194-8_9 Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Palgrave Macmillan Books from Palgrave Macmillan |
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