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Record Nr.

UNINA9910300485003321

Autore

Tudoroiu Theodor

Titolo

Brexit, President Trump, and the Changing Geopolitics of Eastern Europe / / by Theodor Tudoroiu

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018

ISBN

3-319-77920-6

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online  resource (290 pages)

Disciplina

341.24220941

Soggetti

Europe—Politics and government

Russia—Politics and government

United States—Politics and government

International relations

European Politics

Russian and Post-Soviet Politics

US Politics

Foreign Policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Geopolitical Approaches, Regional Security Complexes, and Political Psychology -- Chapter 3 East European Interactions: Russian Foreign Policy as Structural Constraint -- Chapter 4 The European Union and Eastern Europe before and after Brexit -- Chapter 5 The United States and Eastern Europe -- Chapter 6 Europe's Great Powers and Small States -- Chapter 7 Domestic and Geopolitical Factors: Moldova as a CIS Case Study -- Chapter 8 Concluding Scenarios. .

Sommario/riassunto

This book analyzes the combined consequences of Brexit and of the new US foreign policy under President Trump on the geopolitical situation of Eastern Europe. It perceives the evolution of the East European regional security complex as a struggle between the European Union's Kantian, win-win geopolitical vision and Russia's neoclassical geopolitics, also promoted by President Trump. In the most probable scenario, the latter approach will have the upper hand.



The EU's post-Brexit control by the Franco-German axis will likely be followed by the geopolitical irrelevance of the EU due to the renationalization of member states' foreign policy, with Germany becoming the main West European actor. Consequently, Eastern Europe will be turned into the arena of a mainly three-cornered neoclassical geopolitics rivalry opposing Russia, the Franco-German axis and then Germany, and the US in alliance with the post-Brexit UK and certain East European states. The book will appeal to scholars across the fields of International Relations, Geopolitics, European Studies, and Area Studies.