Conclusions: Western Interests, Policy Dilemmas and Prospects
Year: 2022

Forty years after the Yalta conference, Europe is still divided. The division runs along many lines and borders — national, economic, ideological, and political. There is neither a politically united Western Europe nor a unified communist Europe. Formulating policy seemed easier in the heyday of the Cold War when perceptions were molded by what seemed a clear confrontation of the two camps: East and West, bad and good, slavery and freedom. The fact that in spite, or even because, of such diametr