Notes on contributors

Preface

Acknowledgements

PART I Introduction

1 From Soviet bloc to democratic security building?

ELLA AKERMAN AND TRACEY GERMAN

PART II Baltic security politics

2 The post-Prague strategic orientation of the Baltic states

ADAM GRISSOM

3 Security: lynchpin of Baltic cooperation

MEL HUANG

4 Russia's Baltic policy in an era of EU integration

INGMAR OLDBERG

PART III Interstate relations in the core CIS

5 The 'normalisation' of Russian foreign policy: the role of pragmatic nationalism and big business

ROSARIA PUGLISI

6 Border security implications for dual enlargement: a comparison of Russia and Ukraine

FRANK MORGESE

7 Imperialism to realism: the role of the West in Russian foreign policy towards Ukraine

VICTOR CHUDOWSKY

8 The union of Belarus and Russia: The role of NATO and the EU

CLELIA RONTOYANNI

PART IV Security politics in the CIS periphery

9 Security concerns in post-Soviet Moldova

TREVOR WATERS

10 Security regime building in the South Caucasus

TAMARA PATARAIA AND DAVID DARCHIASHVILI

11 Western approaches to security cooperation with Central Asian states: advancing the Euro-Atlantic security order in Eurasia

JENNIFER D. P. MORONEY

PART V Security dynamics

12 Conclusions: security dynamics and the 'post-Soviet bloc'

GRAEME P. HERD

Bibliography

Index