1. Foreign and Security Policy
East and Central Europe in Transition

2. Warsaw Pact Response to NATO Goals primarily Moscow’s
Keep Germany divided
Push back starting point of land invasion
Expand Communism [Stalin, but not necessarily Khrushchev]
Brezhnev Doctrine

3. Comecon/CMEA Economic interdependence counter to Common Market
planning
specialisation

4. After “Independence” Let’s all join NATO Let’s all join European Union
Who’s really European?
Yanks go home?
Prevent revival of Communism and/or Moscow dominance
Any old scores need settling?

5. Conflicts Polish posession of Silesia and half East Prussia
Prussia: Konigsberg/Kaliningrad
Transylvania
Ruthenia

6. Diasporas Bulgarian Turks Dispossessed Germans from 1945-8
Russians in Ukraine, Latvia, Estonia
Crimean Tartars
Dispossessed and Murdered East European Jewish families from fascist period
Emigrants to U.S., exiled dissidents and defectors

7. Moscow’s nearby concerns
Far East: Kuriles and Amur/Ussuri river frontiers
Central Asia: Islamic fundamentalism and Tajikistan
Caucasus:Chechnya,Abkhazia,Nagorno-Karabakh, South Ossetia
Europe: CIS or “near abroad”; Baltic States; former Communist states; Western Europe

8. Moscow’s global concerns
UN role: wants to be taken seriously
Relations with US: partnership turning to rivalry: Serbia, Iraq, other conflicts of interest?
Needs to sell something on world market. What is its economic role to be?
What relations are possible with Japan, Germany, France and China?