Europe: The view from the periphery

Rakesh Batabyal has published his book at the right moment, when the European and global order created after the fall of the outer Soviet Empire in 1989 and of the Soviet Union in 1991 has broken down.

- PHILIPP THER

Rakesh Batabyal has published his book at the right moment, when the European and global order created after the fall of the outer Soviet Empire in 1989 and of the Soviet Union in 1991 has broken down. From February 2022, Europe has been engulfed in the largest war since 1945, and because of the recent concessions by the Trump administration to Russia, the risk of an even greater war has increased. In the Baltic states, in Poland, Moldova, and even in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo, the question that is gaining traction is: Are we going to be the next object of military aggression? A larger war in Europe would affect at first the new EU member-countries upon which Professor Batabyal focuses.