from missile defence and NATO
enlargement – has signaled to
Europeans that they will return
to off-shore balancing – leaving Europeans to take primary
responsibility for their backyard.
It is in this context – of an
increasingly multipolar Europe –
that we...
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from missile defence and NATO
enlargement – has signaled to
Europeans that they will return
to off-shore balancing – leaving Europeans to take primary
responsibility for their backyard.
It is in this context – of an
increasingly multipolar Europe –
that we need to think about the
Medvedev proposal.
For diplomats there is a natural tendency
to go for a defensive posture of
marking out European red-lines
and sending the debate into the
graveyard of the OSCE.
But the core questions we need
to start with are: Do we live in
the best of all possible orders
given the political situation in
Russia? Are the post-cold-war
institutions underpinning European order and giving us the
security that we need? If the
answer to these questions is yes,
there may be problems with the
OSCE, CFC, and Georgia but
any renegotiation will simply
play into Russia’s hands – allowing them to undermine NATO,
EU and OSCE; divide and rule
Europeans and Americans; and
re-establish a sphere of influence.
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