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Examine the challenges confronted by the proponents of European unity after the collapse of Soviet Empire in Eastern Europe.

  • UPSC 2011
  • Disintegration of the Soviet Union and the Rise of the Unipolar World

The collapse of the Soviet empire in Eastern Europe between 1989 and 1991 removed the external threat that had long given Western European integration its sense of urgency, and simultaneously opened a security and economic vacuum that proponents of European unity were forced to fill almost overnight.

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  • The Security Vacuum and the Pull Toward NATO
  • Absorbing Fragile Post-Communist Economies
  • A Weakened but Resentful Post-Soviet Russia
  • Yugoslavia as a Test of Collective European Capacity

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