EUROPEAN SECURITY AND DEFENCE IN A GEOPOLITICAL AND GEOCULTURAL CONTEXT
EUROPEAN SECURITY AND DEFENCE IN A GEOPOLITICAL AND GEOCULTURAL CONTEXT

Summary/Abstract: During the Cold War era, policymakers and strategic thinkers had it relatively easy since the holistic and apparently everlasting bipolar confrontation shaped the framework within which the main strategic choices were defined. With the end of that epoch and the eclipse of the Soviet empire, what was a given gave way. European as well as international security has become too multi-faceted to characterize by way of a single analytical model. Though military power remains crucial, the importance of economic power has clearly increased. Additionally, non state actors have also emerged to an extent unknown in the old times of classical diplomacy. Therefore, a distinction could be made between formal and applied geopolitics. Geopolitical dynamics include not only geostrategic but also geo-economical (read: geo-energetic) and geocultural changes of a strategic actors’ position. Three major international strategic actors are involved in framing the European geopolitical and geo-cultural context: the United States of America, the European Union and Russia – clearly forming a kind of power configuration by interacting though to a different extent each one of them, in the European region, and beyond: in the broader “Eurasian” and “euro-Atlantic” supra-region.

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