Abstract
The book begins with a socio-political analysis of Europe. After the end of Cold War, the American policy makers diverted their attention from a presumably stabilized Europe to Asia and the Far East, This displacement created fissures in the Euro-Atlantic relationship. There were several political and socio-economic, issues incubating in the post-Cold War Europe, which upon maturity surfaced in the form of financial troubles, refugee crisis, rebellious populism, and intra-continental hostility. The first chapter provides a detailed analysis of Russia and its hostile advances in Eastern Europe. The author specifically highlights the Russian attack on Crimea and Moscow’s contentions with Estonia. Russia aims to deter NATO and create rifts within the alliance. To achieve these targets, it has deployed soft power and institutional manipulation. The author emphasizes that this has mainly been a reaction to West’s encroachment into the erstwhile Soviet backyard (Eastern Europe) and its insistence that Moscow mustadopt a certain set of values if it desires membership of this Western democratic club.