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Cold Peace
The Russian regime under President Vladimir Putin has embarked on a coherent long-term strategy to regain its influence over former satellites and to limit Western penetration in key parts of this region. Moscow is intent on steadily rebuilding Russia as a major power on the Eurasian stage and will use its neighbors as a springboard for expanding its dominance. In this first systematic analysis detailing Russia's post-Cold War imperialism, Bugajski challenges the contemporary equivalent of Cold War appeasement, which views Russia as a benign and pragmatic power that seeks cooperation and integration with the West.
Pivotal Poland
Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine precipitated a tectonic shift in European security dynamics, ending a relatively peaceful post-Cold War phase and moving the epicenter of European security eastward, to Poland. Janusz Bugajski explores the nature and context of Warsaw's determined efforts to shape NATO's eastern policy and to build a strong, modern military able to resist Russian aggression. CONTENTS: Introduction: Poland's Evolution. Structural Foundations. Russia's Challenge. European Connections. Regional Initiatives. American Ties. Strategic Recommendations.
Ethnic Politics in Eastern Europe: A Guide to Nationality Policies, Organizations and Parties
This guide charts national histories and policies, relevant statistics and chronologies, and the identities, programmes, and activities of the full spectrum of ethnically-based parties and organizations in Central and Eastern Europe.
Expanding Eurasia
"Moscow's overarching ambition toward Europe is to expand the "Eurasian space" in which Russia is the dominant political player. For Moscow, this means transforming Europe into an appendage of the Russian sphere of influence and debilitating Euro-Atlanticism by undercutting Europe's connections with the United States. The author explains that the most effective and realistic long-term Western strategy toward Russia needs to combine "practical engagement" with "strategic assertiveness.""--BOOK JACKET.
Central and East European Politics
This long-needed text explores the other half of Europe, the new and future members of the EU along with the problems and potential they bring to the region and to the world stage. Clear and comprehensive, it offers an authoritative and up-to-date analysis of the transformations and realities in Central and Eastern Europe, the Baltics, and Ukraine. The book presents a set of comparative country case studies as well as thematic chapters on key issues, including European Union and NATO expansion, the economic transition and its social ramifications, the role of women, persistent problems of ethnicity and nationalism, and political reform. For students and specialists alike, this book will be an invaluable resource on the newly democratizing states of Europe.
Failed State
"The Russian Federation is a failed state. It was constructed as the successor of the defunct Soviet Union but confronts crippling challenges to its own survival. During the last three decades, attempts to transform Russia into a nation-state, a civic state, or a stable imperial state have proved futile. The federation is based on brittle historical foundations and is unable to generate a unified national identity that would encompass its entire population. Instead, there is a persistent struggle over Russia's future between nationalists, imperialists, centralists, liberals, and federalists, with growing confrontations between Moscow and the country's diverse regions and ethnic republics. Ru...
Ethnic Politics in Eastern Europe
This guide charts national histories and policies, relevant statistics and chronologies, and the identities, programmes, and activities of the full spectrum of ethnically-based parties and organizations in Central and Eastern Europe.
Nations In Turmoil
Selected by Choice as an Outstanding Academic Book, this notable work has now been thoroughly updated and revised to investigate the sources, manifestations, and implications of interstate and interethnic instability in post-Communist eastern Europe. Janusz Bugajski illuminates long-suppressed historical antagonisms, traces the key contemporary conflicts, and considers evolving forms of regional cooperation and European integration. Pinpointing the new actors and factors shaping eastern European developments, the author considers likely scenarios of future unrest, particularly in light of the Yugoslav wars and persistent tensions throughout the Balkans.
Nations In Turmoil
Investigates the sources and implications of interstate and inter- ethnic instability in post-Communist eastern Europe, including historical and contemporary antagonisms and evolving forms of regional cooperation and European integration, with some emphasis on the Yugoslav wars. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
