East Central European Foreign Policy Identity in Perspective - by E Tulmets (Hardcover)

About the Book

Investigates the political and historical foreign policy identities of six countries that were part of the Eastern Bloc and shows how, despite clear policy oriented towards the west, their participation in the definition of a European policy towards their neighbors has varied, depending on their political and historical foreign policy identities.

Book Synopsis

How have countries in the EU that were previously under Communist rule influenced the creation of a European policy towards other Post-Soviet nations? This study explores countries including the Czech Republic and Poland and shows how they have helped develop a coherent policy based reconciling political and historical foreign policy identities.

Review Quotes

"This study highlights that the coherence of EU policy towards the East is mainly linked to its members' capacity to reconcile their political and historical foreign policy identities. The book will be of particular interest to policy-makers, students and specialists of the EU and East Central Europe, as well as to the larger public interested in European integration." (Pol-Int.org, July, 2015)

About the Author

Elsa Tulmets is Marie Curie Research Fellow at the CERI/Sciences Po in Paris, France. She is also Associate Researcher at the Institute of International Relations (IIR) in Prague, Czech Republic, where she undertook the research for this book. She also contributes to the activities of the Franco-German Research Centre for the Social Sciences, the Centre Marc Bloch in Berlin, Germany, and has alsopean foreign policy as a visiting professor at the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium.