Europa Centrală la sfârșitul războiului rece
Central Europe at the end of the Cold War

Summary/Abstract: Central Europe, defined as a geographical space between the Elbe, the Baltic Sea and the Black Sea, between the German world and the Russian one, shows several significant characteristics. First comes its geopolitical frailty in relation to neighbours having repeatedly manifested hegemonic or imperial tendencies. It was used as a buffer zone, a space of compensatory understandings, experimental space, and battlefield or to attract occasional allies. This versatility of the space also explains the many ways it has been called: Central Europe, including Germany in the interwar period, Eastern Europe during the Cold War, “transition states” after the fall of communism, or New Europe as significant rifts emerged between America, on the one hand and France and Germany, on the other, on how international issues should be solved.

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