Titlebook: East-Central Europe after the Cold War; Poland, the Czech Re Andrew Cottey Book 1995 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers

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Book 1995onal cooperation process between the East-Central European states, their relations with the main European security institutions (the European Union, NATO and the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe) and their position in the European security order of the 1990s.

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Introduction, – Poland, the Czech lands, Slovakia and Hungary – have been of central importance to the continent’s balance of power.. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries the region was the focus of competition and cooperation between the Prussian, Austro-Hungarian and Russian empires. In the twentieth cen

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The New Europe,ng. With the collapse of the German Democratic Republic (GDR), German unification became inevitable. The unexpected and rapid collapse of the bi-polar post-war order raised fundamental questions. Would the end of the Cold War herald a new era of peace and cooperation between East and West? Or might

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Poland,ion between Europe’s two dominant powers, Prussia/Germany and Russia. After 1795, Poland was partitioned between Prussia, Russia and Austria, with an independent Polish state only re-emerging in 1918. During the inter-war period Poland followed the ‘two enemies’ policy, viewing conflictual relations

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Czechoslovakia and After,ny, the latter by Hungary. The creation of Czechoslovakia in 1918 failed to resolve this problem. The incorporation of the Sudetenland and part of Hungary into Czechoslovakia created a German minority of three and a half million and a Hungarian minority of one million, leaving the new state vulnerab

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Hungary,ungarian state was that of relations with its immediate neighbours. Under the 1920 Treaty of Trianon, Hungary lost over two thirds of its pre-First World War territory to its neighbours (primarily to Romania, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia), leaving three million Hungarians outside Hungary as ethnic

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,East–Central Europe and the New European Security Order,up with an increasingly close, special relationship with the West. This chapter traces this development, analyzing the position of the East–Central European states in the European security order of the mid-1990s. The chapter begins by examining the development of the East–Central European states as

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Björn Christensen,Sören ChristensenWhen the new, democratic governments came to power in Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary in 1989 and 1990, they faced a wide range of security policy options.. The primary alternatives open to them were: