Europe

Question 1

Europe Intro

Answer 1

2nd smallest continent and 2rd most populous
Europe is about Borders and Migration

50 states

No clear natural border with the East
2/3 of the most serious conflicts are a short plane ride away.
Big political divide btw EU countries and non-EU countries
Core = Brussels
Ecumene: SE Ireland, England, Paris, Northern FR and GR, Malmo, Londom, Copenhagen, Frankfurt, Prague, Dresden, Leipzig
Capitals: Brussels, Strausburg, Luxemburg
ENT: 1/3rd of old europe
Global Hegemony ended in WWII (from 16th cen was dividing world into colonial secotrs)
Central/Eastern Europe = Buffer zone
Maritime Europe = the most integrated geopolitical region
Balkans have huge historicla baggage that its an insult

Question 2

Regional Organziations - Europe

Answer 2

CEI, CEFTA, V4, EU, EC, Nordic Council, Benelux, Schengen Area, Baltic Assembly, Eurozone, EEA, BSEC, EFTA, Council of Europe

Question 3

Central Europe

Answer 3

Buffer Zone

regional integration: CEI, CEFTA, V4

Early urbanization (faster than EE and SEE but slower than WE. Shaped by GR + jewish culture.
Tradition of local and regional self gov.
Politically and economically oriented towards the continent and not towards overseas.

Question 4

Eastern Europe

Answer 4

Crush zone and zone of contention

Shaped by Russian influnce during Russian Empire and USSR period

Yalta agreement - put it in USSR zone of influence
CW: feopolitical interest in the region waned but post-cw came back
Geopolitcal restructuring int he late 1990s
Southeast Europe - shaped by Byzantine culture, but also reshaped under long Ottoman rule

Question 5

Northern Europe

Answer 5

Settlement not dense and land use not intensice

protestant

Question 6

Western Europe

Answer 6

Former colonial powers oriented towards the Atlantic Ocean

Sustaining the impact of Reformation
Early urbanization and industrialization

Question 7

Southern Europe

Answer 7

Huge seafaring tradition

permanently Catholic and essentialy Romance lands

Question 8

Turkey

Answer 8

Border region imo

Hatay is one of those broder region thingies btw Syria and Tukey

Historically a Persian stepping stone to Greece
Middle ages it identified with Western Christendom
Ottoman Empire

Question 9

Russia

Answer 9

Landmass West of the Ural mountains

centries of expansiv egrowth/urge/push to include Moscow in the European continent
USSR: include or exclude all

Question 10

Integration process in Europe

Answer 10

Universal organizations: members of UN
Global organizations: members of the Commonwealth and Francophonie
Inter-regional organizations: members of NATO and Council of Europe
Sub-regional organizations: Nordic Council, Benelux, V4, CEFTA

Western European Union providing a security frameowk for the Western part of Europe (exp. in 2010)
Europena communities in the Merger Treaty? with coal and steal and the European Economic Community and the European Atomic Energy Community.
Schengen 1980s Europe free of borders
European Union = 5th stage integration (worked its way up from free trade areas)

Question 11

The EU

Answer 11

2 groups of countries left outside of the EU:
1. States emerging from Yugoslavia + Albania
2. Ukrain and its neighbors (Moldova)

Question 12

Regionalism in the Post-Cold War Europe

Answer 12

NATO’s broken nonenlargment process

goal of peaceful, undivided, and democratic Europe

Stronger defense capability imporved burden sharing.
Cohen critized NATO enlargement
The risk of new geopolitical division (Kennan: the most fatal error of US policy in post war was NATO expansion)
Russia is scared of Ukr being a NATO member bc of potential expansion into the -stans