The Geopolitics of Euro-Atlantic Integration

- book edited by Hans Mouritzen and Anders Wiwel

Abstract

The ‘Geopolitics of Euro-Atlantic integration’ offers an accessible and theory -based analysis of European foreign policies in the post-Cold War era. The authors argue that EU- and NATO-mediated geopolitics prevails in most of Europe, but that ‘raw geopolitics’ tends to pop up at the fringes of this thoroughly institutionalized area. Moreover, the effects of past geopolitics persist in the collective memories of several states and compete with contemporary geopolitics in their policy formulations.

Focusing on the post-Cold War era, the book includes analyses of the Benelux, the Nordic and Baltic countries, the Central and East European countries as well as those in Southern Europe. This geographical range was made possible only through contributions by leading European scholars and area experts. The book’s coherence, resembling that of a monograph, is facilitated by its constellation theory, a new geopolitical theory explaining European foreign policies in a comparative perspective. Scenarios for the future of Europe are formulated as well as perspectives for the constellation theory when applied to other parts of the world.

The book can be bought from the Routledge webbsite at a price of 34 $ (as hardback 125 $). Of interest to political scientists, observers, academics and students, this is an invaluable guide to post-Cold War European relations. See also the Amazon website.