A strategic continuation, a tactical changeRussia’s European security policy. OSW Point of View 76, October 2019
Journal: Archive of European Integration (AEI) (University of Pittsburgh)
Year: 2019

The collapse of the Soviet bloc’s structures (the Council of Mutual Economic Assistance and the Warsaw Pact) and then of the Soviet Union itself in 1989–1991 was a kind of geopolitical earthquake in Europe. The main political and legal successor of the USSR, the Russian Federation, had to determine its place in the European order that was being formed, including the security sphere. The new Russia, which inherited from the USSR its membership in the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Eur