Project Gutenberg 2005-06-01 Copyrighted. Read the copyright notice inside this book for details. 78 Vaknin, Samuel 1961 Vaknin, Sam Vaknin, Shmuel Rangelovska, Lidija The Belgian Curtain: Europe after Communism Reading ease score: 45.0 (College-level). Difficult to read. "The Belgian Curtain: Europe after Communism" by Samuel Vaknin is a scholarly analysis of post-communist Europe, likely written in the early 21st century. The work explores the political, social, and economic dynamics that emerged in Europe following the fall of communism, discussing the implications of EU expansion and NATO's evolving role in a changing geopolitical landscape. The opening of the text introduces the complexities surrounding the European Union and NATO's competing alliances, particularly in the context of the 2002 Treaty of Nice. It highlights how the integration of former communist states into these Western institutions reflects both an urgent geopolitical necessity and a fraught historical trajectory. Vaknin emphasizes the shift in perceptions among newly independent Eastern European countries as they navigate their contemporary alliances with the United States and their relationships with Western Europe, creating a nuanced backdrop for the discussions to follow in the rest of the publication. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Post-communism -- Europe Europe -- Politics and government -- 1989- D Text Browsing: History - European Browsing: History - General Browsing: Politics 235809 235810 2024-10-04T06:25:06.063535 2023-10-04T06:30:48.104120 text/html text/html 235802 235803 2024-10-04T06:25:06.478515 2023-10-04T06:30:48.266139 text/html text/html 179523 2024-10-04T06:25:14.655480 application/epub+zip 182846 2024-10-04T06:25:10.560508 application/epub+zip 477940 2012-08-13T10:44:56 text/rtf 159436 2024-10-04T06:25:08.770499 application/epub+zip 394253 2024-10-04T06:25:17.497473 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 382456 2024-10-04T06:25:13.697471 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 270503 2022-09-04T09:30:22.335176 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 212530 212558 2024-10-04T06:25:05.513539 2023-10-04T06:30:47.887089 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 212115 2012-08-13T10:44:38 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 81157 2012-08-16T11:05:50 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 212110 2012-08-13T10:44:32 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 81133 2012-08-16T11:05:50 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 22816 2024-10-04T06:25:18.007459 application/rdf+xml 21684 2024-10-04T06:25:09.618524 image/jpeg 4686 2024-10-04T06:25:09.136517 image/jpeg 104125 2012-08-16T11:19:52 application/octet-stream application/zip 179072 2024-10-04T06:25:06.497526 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia