Geopolitics of Central and Eastern Europe in the 21st Century: From the Buffer Zone to the Gateway Zone (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783631819159)

This book seeks to answer how we can reposition the geopolitical situation of the Central and Eastern European (CEE) region in the 21^st century. CEE region defined by the socialist past has transformed in the 21st century. Within geopolitical thought we must abandon the paradigms of the Cold War period. The role of a gateway zone to entail links between the great powers. In the CEE region it is possible to bound four gateway regions along the north-south Baltic-Adriatic axis (Baltic, North Adriatic, Central European and Eurasian) and two gateway regions along the southeast-east European axis (Mediterranean and Black Sea). The key question of the 21st century is whether a new gateway zone of the present forming World-Island can be developed along a north-south Baltic-Adriatic axis.