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Poland, Germany and State Power in Post-Cold War EuropeDisquiet in the East: Relations with Russia and the Neighbours

Poland, Germany and State Power in Post-Cold War Europe: Disquiet in the East: Relations with... [Chapter 5 examines the oscillating trajectory of cooperation and competition that has characterised Poland and Germany’s approaches towards the EU’s eastern neighbourhood since the second half of the 2000s. Because of its proximity to the region that remains a key source of geopolitical instability, Warsaw has consistently viewed it as an area of first-order strategic priority and pursued policies aimed at its progressive integration into the Euro-Atlantic community. After it was thrust from its Cold War Frontstaat position into the community’s secure core—but also as a matter of a geo-economic imperative—Germany has in turn focused on cultivating a more complex partnership with Russia. These differences reflected Poland and Germany’s dissimilar geopolitical positions in the Euro-Atlantic community, and were additionally informed by their asymmetric economic power. However, the pair’s mutual tensions were also aggravated by their unequal capacities to shape the content of the EU external agenda as a function of dissimilar levels of their respective ‘ownership’ in the European project.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Poland, Germany and State Power in Post-Cold War EuropeDisquiet in the East: Relations with Russia and the Neighbours

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019. The author(s) has/have asserted their right(s) to be identified as the author(s) of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
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978-1-349-95351-6
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163 –199
DOI
10.1057/978-1-349-95352-3_5
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Abstract

[Chapter 5 examines the oscillating trajectory of cooperation and competition that has characterised Poland and Germany’s approaches towards the EU’s eastern neighbourhood since the second half of the 2000s. Because of its proximity to the region that remains a key source of geopolitical instability, Warsaw has consistently viewed it as an area of first-order strategic priority and pursued policies aimed at its progressive integration into the Euro-Atlantic community. After it was thrust from its Cold War Frontstaat position into the community’s secure core—but also as a matter of a geo-economic imperative—Germany has in turn focused on cultivating a more complex partnership with Russia. These differences reflected Poland and Germany’s dissimilar geopolitical positions in the Euro-Atlantic community, and were additionally informed by their asymmetric economic power. However, the pair’s mutual tensions were also aggravated by their unequal capacities to shape the content of the EU external agenda as a function of dissimilar levels of their respective ‘ownership’ in the European project.]

Published: Sep 29, 2018

Keywords: EU external relations; European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP); Eastern Partnership (EaP); Ukraine; Belarus; EU-Russia relations; Geopolitics; Enlargement; Ostpolitik; ‘European perspective’; Orange Revolution; ‘De-linkage politics’

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