Transatlantic relations in XXI century and their impact over CEE countries.
Keywords:
Transatlantic relations, American foreign policy, European integration, Central and Eastern Europe transformation, Post-soviet spaceAbstract
Today the region which often called “New Europe” is experiencing a very complex and important period of political history. The majority of these states are on a certain stage of final transformation: cutting off geopolitical forms of the Soviet period and refocusing on one or another form of regional or global integration. A very similar situation was in the Central and Eastern Europe at the end of the XX century. In both cases the impact of foreign actors, and primarily the United Europe and the USA, whose policy mainly formed further paradigm of development in these regions, was of paramount importance. These states are actually facing the dilemma of choosing between the development of the Atlantic foreign policy vector (the position of the United States is traditionally strong in this region) and deepening integration processes within the European Union, which they mostly belong to.References
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