CIAO DATE: 07/02

The Elephant and the Bear:
The European Union, Russia, and their Near Abroads

Michael Emerson
with Nathalie Tocci, Marius Vahl, and Nicholas Whyte

Centre for European Policy Studies

2001

 

Table of Contents

Preface

1. Introduction

2. Theoretical Paradigms

3. Paradigms for Geopolitical Europe

   3.1     Common European Home
   3.2     Europe of two empires
             The EU - The reluctant empire
             Russia - The reluctant ex-empire
             Two reluctant empires face to face

4. Paradigms for Borderland Europe

   4.1     Nationalising state
   4.2     Europe of fuzzy statehood
   4.3     Borderland categories
             Clean-cut peripheries
             Integrating peripheries
             Divided peripheries
             Overlapping peripheries

5. Pardigmatic Solutions

   5.1     Stability pacts - From the Balkans to the Caucasus
   5.2     Cooperative regionalism - From the Baltic to the Black Seas
   5.3     European solutions or disasters - Cyprus and Turkey
   5.4     Strategic partnership - EU and Russia

6. Conclusions

   References

   Annex

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