Ukraine, Europe, and Russia: exclusion or dependence? -- Does th EU have an ostpolitik? -- Challenges of EU enlargement -- Belarus: give a dog a bad name -- Dual enlargements and Ukraine -- Kaliningrad -- Dynamics of NATO enlargement -- EU and the baltic states -- Polish illusions and reality -- Europe question in Romania and moldova -- Russian views on NATO and the EU -- Conclusions: the pangs of disappointed love? a divided west and its multiple peripheries

1. National security -- Europe
2. North Atlantic Treaty Organization -- Membership
3. Europe -- Economic integration
4. European Union -- Europe
5. Eastern