The new Near East
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10803000 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Colin King (0000-0001-8537-5853, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 49-68 |
| Publication date | 2001-06-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Survival (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0039-6338 • E-ISSN: 1468-2699 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/713660348 |
| OpenAlex | W2033793852 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
A decade after the demise of communism, scholars, policy-makers and journalists still apply to Europe the same geographical descriptors that were born of the Cold War. Europe is usually sectioned into an integrating west, a reforming centre, and a struggling east. But along the eastern periphery of the continent, the most striking division is increasingly one between a stable and cooperative north-east and a fractious and troubled south-east that extends further south and east than just the former Yugoslavia. There has been no shortage of external involvement in this region. The Aegean and Black seas are an alphabet soup of American and European projects, programmes, processes and partnerships, all designed to encourage good neighbourly relations and prepare the way for entry into Euro-Atlantic institutions. Yet rarely has there been serious consideration of how these initiatives should fit together, or what the realistic strategic goals of regional cooperation should be. Understanding some of the common difficulties faced by the Balkans, Turkey, Ukraine and the Caucasus and identifying both the promise of and barriers to regional cooperation are crucial to dealing with a zone that is quickly becoming Europe's own 'near abroad
Cold war · Demise · Economic shortage · Economics · Economy · Geography · Government (linguistics · Middle East · Political science · Politics · Law · Post-Soviet Geopolitical Dynamics
| Citations per year | 0.12 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2009 - 2020 (12) |
| Highly cited | No |