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1. Introduction
2. Geopolitical Approaches, Regional Security Complexes, and Political Psychology
3. East European Interactions: Russian Foreign Policy as Structural Constraint
4. The European Union and Eastern Europe Before and After Brexit
5. The USA and Eastern Europe
6. Europe's Great Powers and Small States
7. Domestic and Geopolitical Factors: Moldova as a CIS Case Study
8. Concluding Scenarios.
Intro; Brexit, President Trump, and the Changing Geopolitics of Eastern Europe; Acknowledgements; Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction; References
Chapter 2: Geopolitical Approaches, Regional Security Complexes, and Political Psychology; 2.1 The European Union as a Security Community; 2.2 The Renaissance of Geopolitics; 2.3 Neoclassical Geopolitics; 2.4 The Regional Security Complex Theory; 2.5 Frozen Conflicts and Hybrid Wars; 2.6 State Capture; 2.7 Political Psychology; References;
Chapter 3: East European Interactions: Russian Foreign Policy as Structural Constraint
3.1 Putin, the Authoritarian Restorer; 3.1.1 Weimar Russia; 3.1.2 Putin, Restitutor Orbis; 3.1.3 A Great Power, Once More; 3.2 Russian Geopolitics; 3.2.1 Geopolitics and Eurasianism; 3.2.2 The Eurasian Union; 3.2.3 Russia's Greater Europe; 3.2.4 Moscow and Washington: The Narrative; 3.2.5 Moscow and Brussels: The Narrative; 3.2.6 The Cold Peace; 3.2.7 Munichs, Worldviews, and Identity; 3.2.8 The Kremlin's Concentric Circles; 3.2.9 The Kremlin's Instruments; 3.2.10 Authoritarian Internationalism; References
Chapter 4: The European Union and Eastern Europe Before and After Brexit
4.1 The EU as a Hybrid International Actor; 4.2 The European Union's Eastern Policies and Russia; 4.2.1 The Eastern Enlargement; 4.2.2 The EU Eastern Geopolitical Doctrine; 4.3 The Present EU Crisis and Its Consequences for the Process of European Integration; 4.3.1 The Rise of Populism; 4.3.2 Souverainisme vs. Integration by Stealth; 4.3.3 The European Union's Existential Crisis; 4.4 The Possible Trajectories of the Post-Brexit European Union; 4.4.1 Scenario 1: Deeper Integration; 4.4.2 Scenario 2: The Dominance of the Franco-German Axis
4.4.3 Scenario 3: The Geopolitical Irrelevance of the EU; 4.4.4 Brexit as Point de Rupture; References
Chapter 5: The USA and Eastern Europe; 5.1 The North Atlantic Treaty Organization; 5.2 The 'Pivot to Asia'; 5.3 The USA and The East European Security Complex; 5.4 President Trump: 'An Insurgent in the White House'; 5.4.1 President Nixon and the Madman Theory; 5.4.2 The Amorous Narcissist; 5.4.3 Captured by the Bureaucrats?; 5.5 President Trump's Foreign Policy; 5.5.1 President Trump and China; 5.5.2 President Trump and Russia; 5.5.3 President Trump and Eastern Europe
5.6 US Foreign Policy Scenarios; References
Chapter 6: Europe's Great Powers and Small States; 6.1 The West Europeans; 6.1.1 Germany at the Center; 6.1.2 The French Art of Balancing; 6.1.3 Brexiteer Britain; 6.1.4 The Other West Europeans; 6.2 The Former Communist Members of the EU; 6.2.1 The Central Europeans; 6.2.2 The South-East Europeans; 6.3 The Eastern Partnership States; References
Chapter 7: Domestic and Geopolitical Factors: Moldova as a CIS Case Study; 7.1 Moldova's Domestic Landscape: Poor, Divided, and Vulnerable; 7.2 The Transnistrian Frozen Conflict
2. Geopolitical Approaches, Regional Security Complexes, and Political Psychology
3. East European Interactions: Russian Foreign Policy as Structural Constraint
4. The European Union and Eastern Europe Before and After Brexit
5. The USA and Eastern Europe
6. Europe's Great Powers and Small States
7. Domestic and Geopolitical Factors: Moldova as a CIS Case Study
8. Concluding Scenarios.
Intro; Brexit, President Trump, and the Changing Geopolitics of Eastern Europe; Acknowledgements; Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction; References
Chapter 2: Geopolitical Approaches, Regional Security Complexes, and Political Psychology; 2.1 The European Union as a Security Community; 2.2 The Renaissance of Geopolitics; 2.3 Neoclassical Geopolitics; 2.4 The Regional Security Complex Theory; 2.5 Frozen Conflicts and Hybrid Wars; 2.6 State Capture; 2.7 Political Psychology; References;
Chapter 3: East European Interactions: Russian Foreign Policy as Structural Constraint
3.1 Putin, the Authoritarian Restorer; 3.1.1 Weimar Russia; 3.1.2 Putin, Restitutor Orbis; 3.1.3 A Great Power, Once More; 3.2 Russian Geopolitics; 3.2.1 Geopolitics and Eurasianism; 3.2.2 The Eurasian Union; 3.2.3 Russia's Greater Europe; 3.2.4 Moscow and Washington: The Narrative; 3.2.5 Moscow and Brussels: The Narrative; 3.2.6 The Cold Peace; 3.2.7 Munichs, Worldviews, and Identity; 3.2.8 The Kremlin's Concentric Circles; 3.2.9 The Kremlin's Instruments; 3.2.10 Authoritarian Internationalism; References
Chapter 4: The European Union and Eastern Europe Before and After Brexit
4.1 The EU as a Hybrid International Actor; 4.2 The European Union's Eastern Policies and Russia; 4.2.1 The Eastern Enlargement; 4.2.2 The EU Eastern Geopolitical Doctrine; 4.3 The Present EU Crisis and Its Consequences for the Process of European Integration; 4.3.1 The Rise of Populism; 4.3.2 Souverainisme vs. Integration by Stealth; 4.3.3 The European Union's Existential Crisis; 4.4 The Possible Trajectories of the Post-Brexit European Union; 4.4.1 Scenario 1: Deeper Integration; 4.4.2 Scenario 2: The Dominance of the Franco-German Axis
4.4.3 Scenario 3: The Geopolitical Irrelevance of the EU; 4.4.4 Brexit as Point de Rupture; References
Chapter 5: The USA and Eastern Europe; 5.1 The North Atlantic Treaty Organization; 5.2 The 'Pivot to Asia'; 5.3 The USA and The East European Security Complex; 5.4 President Trump: 'An Insurgent in the White House'; 5.4.1 President Nixon and the Madman Theory; 5.4.2 The Amorous Narcissist; 5.4.3 Captured by the Bureaucrats?; 5.5 President Trump's Foreign Policy; 5.5.1 President Trump and China; 5.5.2 President Trump and Russia; 5.5.3 President Trump and Eastern Europe
5.6 US Foreign Policy Scenarios; References
Chapter 6: Europe's Great Powers and Small States; 6.1 The West Europeans; 6.1.1 Germany at the Center; 6.1.2 The French Art of Balancing; 6.1.3 Brexiteer Britain; 6.1.4 The Other West Europeans; 6.2 The Former Communist Members of the EU; 6.2.1 The Central Europeans; 6.2.2 The South-East Europeans; 6.3 The Eastern Partnership States; References
Chapter 7: Domestic and Geopolitical Factors: Moldova as a CIS Case Study; 7.1 Moldova's Domestic Landscape: Poor, Divided, and Vulnerable; 7.2 The Transnistrian Frozen Conflict