The Return of Geopolitics in Europe? Social Mechanisms and Foreign Policy Identity Crises

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Editor-in-chief: S. Guzzini

This comparative study shows how the revival of geopolitics came not despite, but because of, the end of the Cold War. Disoriented in their self-understandings and conception of external role by the events of 1989, many European foreign policy actors used the determinism of geopolitical thought to find their place in world politics quickly. The book develops a constructivist methodology to study causal mechanisms, and its comparative approach allows for a broad assessment of some of the fundamental dynamics of European security.

Chapters

Russia: geopolitics from the heartland

Morozova N., Astrov A., , in: The Return of Geopolitics in Europe? Social Mechanisms and Foreign Policy Identity Crises.: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. P. 192–216.

This article accounts for the revival of geopolitics in Russian post-Soviet foreign policy thinking and also for the fact that geopolitics-inspired foreign policy prescriptions had relatively little impact on the actual conduct of Russian foreign policy. It is argued that classical geopolitics was revived in Russia in order to objectively present the dissolution of the ...

Added: November 6, 2013

Keywords: realism, constructivism, Cold War, classical geopolitics, critical geopolitics, European post-Cold War security, foreign policy identity