European Political Community

1 After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, and the subsequent breakup of the Soviet Union and other geopolitical realignments in central and eastern Europe, many things changed in the ‘continental’ European space. For the last decade of the 20th century and the first two decades of the 21st century, however, the Member States of the European Union (EU), so far as they retained an urge to use European integration mechanisms to promote peace and security on the European continent, largely focused on the more robust institutionalisation of existing political...