Germany and the Passage from War to Peace in Eurasia

Vassilis K. Fouskas

Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, 2007, vol. 15, issue 2, 195-210

Abstract: The article examines the geo-political and socio-economic positioning of Germany in Eastern Europe, the Balkans and the Greater Middle East vis-à-vis the contingency of another US-led war against Iran. The central argument is that an attack on Iran would further undermine the cohesion of the EU as a potential political actor in the international arena, while setting on a collision course Europe and Russia. However, the article shows that there are some important and innate cooperative tendencies between Eurasian powers, tendencies that the US and its closest allies, such as Britain and Israel, cannot reverse forever and by way of wars and acts of aggression, such as the recent crisis between Russia and the US over the placement of missiles in Poland. Following a geo-political approach, the article argues that the undoing of America's primacy in Eurasia is the first step towards the historic possibility for the passage from war to peace on the continent.

Date: 2007
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DOI: 10.1080/09651560701483287

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