Brexit, President Trump, and the Changing Geopolitics of Eastern Europe

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 acrossthe fields of International Relations, Geopolitics, European Studies, and Area Studies.

Provides the first book-length study of the effects of Brexit and Trump on the geopolitics of Eastern Europe Moves beyond the purely geopolitical by considering the domestic dimension of interactions between domestic and international actors Examines the re-assertion of Russian dominance over the domestic politics of East European States

Autorentext

Theodor Tudoroiu is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Political Science of the University of the West Indies at St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago. He works mainly on subjects related to post-communist and Middle Eastern regional politics and regime change.

Inhalt
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.