European Security Space: the Problem with Ukraine

... related to processes of disintegration. This strategy inevitably reduced the idea of Wider Europe to the expansion of the western space of "freedom, security and stability" eastward, also incorporating the practical policies of such basic Euro-Atlantic institutions as NATO and the EU. Attempts to bring Russia into the expanding Euro-Atlantic community failed, whereas Moscow stepped up its efforts to resist this enlargement and consolidate the Eastern, i.e. post-Soviet, space. The growing ...