title: Regional Security and Regional Relations
abstract: After the seemingly successful reordering of security in Central and Southeastern Europe after the 1989 revolutions, the conclusion of the Yugoslav wars of secession, and NATO and European Union (EU) enlargement, hard security considerations have catapulted back onto the region's policy agenda. The EU's Eastern Partnership, intended as a benign project to assist six post-Soviet states between the EU and Russia, instead came to threaten Russian security sensitivities. The Russian annexation of Cr
journal: Cambridge University Press eBooks