scholarly journals ROMANIA IN THE GAME OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION480

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (72) ◽  
pp. 284-302
Author(s):  
Vasile SIMILEANU
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Free Will ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Market Economy ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
National Interests ◽  
Regional Order ◽  
East And West

The new geostrategic architecture and the redesign of geopolitical spaces have reopened the "Pandora's box" of Eastern Europe, crushed by political, ethno-confessional andterritorial interests, giving free rein to the manifestation of incredible and unrealistic scenarios regarding the "new regional order". This space, former theater of war in the two world wars, remained a space of dispute between East and West, which reactivated the imperial claims of some state actors with interests for the states in the region. Currently, a new Cold War or the continuation of the old one is foreshadowed... The new options open to the "escaped" states from the communist camp were those ofdemocracy and free will, after more than five decades of imposing ideologies foreign to the spirit of these nations.The election of new strategic partners, after the torture of a communist dictatorship, led to the generation of essential policies on national interests, but not sufficiently understood by decision-makers in these Eastern European states, manifestations that "planted" distrust of social segments in the new values democratic and market economy. Indeed, revolutions and the "sleep of reason" have given birth to "monsters"... in all states...Keywords: EU, Russian Federation, Germany, NATO, Romania.

scholarly journals Kraje Europy Środkowej i Wschodniej i rozszerzenie NATO a polityka zagraniczna Federacji Rosyjskiej w latach 1992‑1994

Politeja ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (7 (34/2)) ◽  
pp. 181-194
Author(s):  
Igor Grieckij
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Market Economy ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Russian Government ◽  
National Interests ◽  
Nato Enlargement ◽  
History Of

Central and Eastern Europe countries and NATO enlargement in foreign policy of Russian Federation in 1992‑1992 The beginning of the 1990s is one of the most interesting and controversial periods in the history of Russian foreign policy. At that time, extensive reforms were introduced in Russia in the framework of transition to market economy and institutions of civil society. Russia’s foreign policy has undergone great changes, as well, many of its fundamental provisions were subject to significant adjustment. In particular, the new leadership of Russia is no longer considered NATO as an enemy, and even let in a possibility of Russia’s prospects for NATO membership in future. However, by 1994, the Kremlin’s position on that issue has changed dramatically. This article examines the nature of these changes in Russia’s foreign policy, as well as the reasons why the Russian government perceived negatively the CEE countries’ aspirations to join NATO, and considered it as a threat to its national interests.

Vaccination and the communist state: polio in Eastern Europe

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dora Vargha
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Vaccine Development ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
Archival Research ◽  
The West ◽  
Communist State ◽  
East And West ◽  
The Cold War

Through the case of Czechoslovakia and Hungary, this chapter explores the role of Eastern European states in polio prevention and vaccine development in the Cold War. Based on published sources and archival research, the chapter demonstrates that polio facilitated cooperation between the antagonistic sides to prevent a disease that equally affected East and West. Moreover, it argues that Eastern Europe was seen – both by Eastern European states and the West - as different when it came to polio prevention, since the communist states were considered to be particularly well suited to test and successfully implement vaccines.

‘New Warsaw Pacts’, ‘Beggar Imperialism’ and interstate rivalry in Central and Eastern Europe

2016 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 263-290
Author(s):  
Filip Ilkowski
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Specific Form ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
Capitalist Development ◽  
Post Cold War ◽  
European Area ◽  
Interstate Rivalry

This article addresses newly emerging interstate rivalry between Central and Eastern European states based on unevenness of capitalist development and growing assertiveness of particular states in terms of their various strategies and tactics. It critically analyses the efficacy of ‘New Warsaw Pacts’ concepts and argues that in the Central and Eastern European area, we observe a specific form of a post–Cold War multi-polarity, whereby interstate rivalry is becoming increasingly more complex. The term of ‘Beggar Imperialism’ is utilized as a possibly useful description of a specific form geopolitical strategy shown by the example of Poland.

scholarly journals Regional Cooperation in Central and Eastern Europe and its Implications for the EU

European View ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 231-238 ◽  
Author(s):  
Viktória Jančošekovà
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Regional Cooperation ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
National Interests ◽  
Central Eastern Europe ◽  
Migration Crisis ◽  
Eastern European Countries ◽  
Visegrád Countries ◽  
The Eu

Regional cooperation is mutually beneficial collaboration between neighbouring countries. This holds regardless of whether it is a matter of cooperation between the Benelux countries, the Nordic–Baltic states, France and Germany, or the Visegrad countries. The last-mentioned countries' dismissive attitude to tackling the migration crisis has thrust them into the limelight. The most recent cooperative forums in the Central Eastern Europe region, such as the Slavkov Triangle and the Three Seas Initiative, evidence a new dynamic and a regrouping of forces on the basis of national interests and EU themes. Western and Eastern Europe have different approaches to the most pressing challenges, such as migration. These differences have caused deep divisions between their respective leaders. However, the disagreements on the migration issue and the future of the EU notwithstanding, regional cooperation among the Central and Eastern European countries remains valuable in areas that include the integration process, security and defence.

scholarly journals THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC – A SOURCE FOR GEOPOLITICAL CHANGE? THE CASE OF EASTERN EUROPE

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Oana - Antonia COLIBĂȘANU ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
Medium Term ◽  
National Interests ◽  
Major Powers ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World ◽  
Change Position ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Eu

The world’s tectonics seem to be changing faster than before, considering the current Covid-19 pandemic. Understanding the general, global sources for change that drive the major powers’ national interests is key to understanding Eastern European geopolitical trends. This research paper looks at the impact the Covid-19 pandemic has had so far on the world, considering the main geopolitical questions that have been raised during the last nine months since the pandemic started. It also addresses the pandemic effects on Europe, focusing on the challenges for Eastern Europe during the short and medium term. Conclusions refer to the way the regional balancing act changes, depending on how the EU, the US, China and Russia change position globally and how their strategies intersect with one another and with those of the countries in the Eastern Europe.

Gender Issues in Eastern Europe

2011 ◽  
pp. 656-662
Author(s):  
Christina Hanganu-Bresch
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Market Economy ◽  
Critical Reflection ◽  
East Germany ◽  
Gender Issues ◽  
Transition To Democracy ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
Research Questions

This article aims to indicate a working agenda of Eastern European gender issues and to generate critical reflection and further research questions. Although many alternative definitions exist, Eastern Europe is identified here as the totality of postcommunist countries (from ex-East Germany to the ex-USSR [Union of Soviet Socialist Republics] countries, including Russia) that are now undergoing a process of transition to democracy and a market economy (see map). Despite past similarities caused by the sharing of the same type of political oppression, these countries differ somewhat in their treatment of gender, partly due to their precommunist past, partly due to their particular socioeconomic and historical circumstances. Thus, any generalizations drawn here must be taken with a grain of salt, and one must remember that neither the category of women nor the concept of Eastern Europe, or postcommunism for that matter, is monolithic.

Nursing Ethics: What Lies Ahead? The Case of Bulgaria

1996 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-72
Author(s):  
Sashka Popova
Keyword(s):  
Free Will ◽  
Market Economy ◽  
The Other ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
Nursing Ethics ◽  
Current Crisis ◽  
Civic Society ◽  
Eastern European Countries ◽  
The Individual

In Bulgaria, we are sharing a transition to a civic society and a market economy, which means transferring to new parameters of our culture. Many old customs based on coer cion, obedience and unacceptable interference are gradually dying out, and new princi ples tend to shape the way we live our collective lives. These include the ethics of partnership, which tend to create an assertion of individual rights and an affirmation of free will and autonomy, and within which the individual is protected in the pursuit of personal judgements. It is remarkable, however, that we have so much difficulty in talk ing about and identifying the most beneficial approaches for the achievement of the new design of our society. In this paper, I propose to illustrate the current crisis in nursing ethics with informa tion mainly from Bulgaria. However, I think that the problems and trends in the other Eastern European countries are similar.

Streaming freedom in illiberal Eastern Europe

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 170-186 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anikó Imre
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Media Studies ◽  
Free Market ◽  
European Region ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
Consumer Empowerment ◽  
Political Conditions ◽  
The Cold War

The article asks how we begin to assess the connections and mutual influences between television’s increasing globalisation facilitated by digital distribution platforms and the globalisation of crisis borne by the failure of the neo-liberal free market paradigm, which has resulted in the rise of nativist nationalisms, xenophobia and authoritarianism. I argue that, considering these contradictory developments as interconnected disrupts some of the epistemological paradigms inherited from the Cold War and simultaneously helps us understand – and demystify – emerging paradigms of consumer empowerment associated with streaming in television and media studies. In particular, I demonstrate the importance of resisting sweeping assessments about the globalisation of the ‘HBO-type quality drama’ by considering the operations of HBO Europe, whose pioneering localisation practices in Eastern Europe have thrived within increasingly illiberal political conditions in the post-socialist Eastern European region.

scholarly journals Eastern European Exilic Trajectories in Post-1989 Life Writing

2013 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. T61-T80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ioana Luca
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Life Writing ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
Recent Past ◽  
Post Cold War ◽  
Eastern European Countries ◽  
Post Communism ◽  
The Cold War

My article offers a comparative analysis of autobiographical works by Susan Suleiman, Andrei Codrescu and Kapka Kassabova with a three-pronged interest. First, I aim to further the discussion about exilic identities emerging from Eastern Europe; second, I show the “shifting national, global imaginaries” that post-1989 Eastern European exiles’ life writing registers; and third, I analyze how Suleiman, Codrescu and Kassabova negotiate affective attachments withtheir “native” Eastern European countries in the aftermath of the Cold War. I consider their life writing important as it captures the overlappings and complicities between apparently opposite regimes — nazism, communism and/or post-communism — and in so doing they animate a historical imaginary of the recent past in Eastern Europe. Their trajectories of exile and return become a lens for the larger variations of exilic subjectivity in post-cold war Eastern Europe.

scholarly journals In quest of Eastern Europe: troubling encounters in the post-Cold War field

1970 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Eleni Sideri
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
The Political ◽  
Post Cold War ◽  
Family Memories ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
East And West ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
Of Greece

This paper examines various transformations regarding the categories of 'us' and 'them' that occurred during my year of fieldwork in Georgia (2003-2004). My research questions concerning the formation of a 'Greek diaspora' in Georgia through family memories and historiographical accounts led me to 'paradoxical' encounters, which seemed to challenge my perceptions of selfhood as well as my ideas about the political, historical and geographical topographies of Greece and Georgia. These troubling encounters seemed to drive me to a re-conceptualisation of both 'East' and 'West', not only as spatial and temporal/historical entities, but also as mutually constructed ideologies during the Cold War and post-Cold War period.

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