title: Washington’s Strategic Priorities in East-Central Europe
abstract: American geopolitics and East-Centr al Europe in the light of theory and pr acticeThe realities of power that are at the heart of geopolitics have not only played a decisive role in the history of the United States and East-Central Europe; these realities have also bound the transatlantic parties together.However, the latter's relationship to geopolitics is more nuanced.On the one hand, while today's international order was established according to Washington's expectations, American foreign pol