After the Cold War

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

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3. The Status Quo Plus

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   2. The Conflict in Retrospect

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   3. The Rise of Detente

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4. Change in Europe

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   2. The Europeanization of the East-West System

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   3. The Imperatives of Political Change

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5. Bipolarity in Transition

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   2. The Changing Geostrategic Landscape of Europe

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   3. The Outlook for European Security in the 1990s

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   4. Europe in Transition

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6. Back Matter

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This book provides new and exceptional interpretations in regard to the post-World War 2 history of the East-West conflict and calls for interdisciplinary approaches in analyzing international relations. The systematic and political processes are undoing the division of Europe and restoring an 'organically' interdependent continent. The events of 1989 in Eastern Europe are but a harbinger of a new security order in Europe and, for the first time since the Treaty of Westphalia of 1648 Europe tries to look beyond state-centered concepts of security.

• cold war
• conflict
• Europe
• European security
• history
• international relations
• european union politics

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