title: Central European Direction of U.S. Foreign Policy: from Velvet Revolutions to Ukrainian Crisis
abstract: The article analyses the historical and political development of Central Europe since the Velvet Revolutions of the late 1980s to the present day. The study demonstrated that after the collapse of the socialist regimes, Washington began to pay close attention to the space that found itself in a political vacuum after the collapse of the USSR. After the Central European countries found themselves in the Euro-Atlantic community, Washington&amp;apos;s attention to the region decreased. However, the
journal: Современная Европа / Contemporary Europe