Europe's eastern crisis: the geopolitics of asymmetry
Journal: International Affairs
Year: 2018

Among the litany of books published about the European Union these last few years, it was not rare to see ‘Europe’ associated with ‘crisis’. While Richard Youngs's book contains both words, he addresses geopolitical phenomena and problems (or ‘crises’) that occur outside the EU, in eastern Europe. Youngs's book concentrates on the Russo-Ukrainian crisis that began in late 2013—though Europe's eastern crisis does also discuss the relationship between the EU and the countries involved in the EU Ea