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Vladimir Baranovsky (ed.), Russia and Europe: The Emerging Security Agenda (Oxford: Oxford University Press/Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, 1997), 582 pp., L50, ISBN 0 19 829201 5.
With nearly 600 pages and 25 separate chapters, this book cannot be given a comprehensive review here. I will focus upon the important features of the book. Unlike many edited volumes, this one does have a coherent theme linking the various chapters. The book is also based upon fairly long-term and ongoing collaborative research. The authors (principally from institutions in different parts of Europe, including Russia, France, Ukraine, the UK, Poland, Germany, and Sweden), each specialising in various aspects of Russian and European security issues, worked together over three years up to 1996 to examine the security relationship between post-Soviet Russia and Europe.
The book is divided into 13 parts. The first, following an introduction by Alexei Arbatov and five other contributors setting out objectives, covers the security context, with one chapter dealing with the historical background of Russia's security thinking on Europe (by Lethar Ruhl), and another on the...