TY - BOOK ID - 14467823 TI - Torn between East and West AU - Chifu, Iulian AU - Tutuianu, Simona PY - 2017 SN - 9781472475794 9781315581101 9781317139010 9781317139027 PB - Abingdon, Oxon ;New York, N.Y. Routledge DB - UniCat KW - GEOPOLITICS--EUROPE, EASTERN KW - GEOPOLITICS--FORMER SOVIET REPUBLICS KW - EUROPE, EASTERN--POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT KW - FORMER SOVIET REPUBLICS--POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT KW - EUROPE, EASTERN--FOREIGN RELATIONS KW - FORMER SOVIET REPUBLICS--FOREIGN RELATIONS UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:14467823 AB - This book is a very timely account of the legal, economic and political consequences for border states caught in the current tug-of-war between the West and Russia. The Ukraine crisis of 2014 focused policy-makers' attention on a breakup of the Soviet Union, namely the security dynamics of the border states of Eastern Europe and the Black Sea. Twenty-five years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, a strong Russia returns alternatively threatening and cajoling, but at risk itself of suffering economic injury from western reprisals over its nostalgia for the map drawn at Yalta. That conflict, which hotted up over the Ukraine, was soon being played out over - and in the air space over - Syria and Turkey, while the border states themselves are likely to be drawn in the European refugee crisis and have the potential, after the 2015 Paris atrocities, to be breeding grounds for international terrorists. ER -