Project Gutenberg 2005-06-01 Copyrighted. Read the copyright notice inside this book for details. 149 Vaknin, Samuel 1961 Vaknin, Sam Vaknin, Shmuel Rangelovska, Lidija The Belgian Curtain: Europe after Communism "The Belgian Curtain: Europe after Communism" by Samuel Vaknin is a scholarly analysis of post-communist Europe, likely written in the early 21st century. The work explores the political, social, and economic dynamics that emerged in Europe following the fall of communism, discussing the implications of EU expansion and NATO's evolving role in a changing geopolitical landscape. The opening of the text introduces the complexities surrounding the European Union and NATO's competing alliances, particularly in the context of the 2002 Treaty of Nice. It highlights how the integration of former communist states into these Western institutions reflects both an urgent geopolitical necessity and a fraught historical trajectory. Vaknin emphasizes the shift in perceptions among newly independent Eastern European countries as they navigate their contemporary alliances with the United States and their relationships with Western Europe, creating a nuanced backdrop for the discussions to follow in the rest of the publication. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 45.0 (College-level). Difficult to read. en Post-communism -- Europe Europe -- Politics and government -- 1989- D Text Category: History - European Category: Politics 235981 2025-07-04T05:08:13.874829 text/html 235802 2025-01-11T02:49:24.450353 text/html 179591 2025-07-04T05:08:20.311760 application/epub+zip 182837 2025-07-04T05:08:16.962828 application/epub+zip 477940 2012-08-13T10:44:56 text/rtf 159425 2025-07-04T05:08:15.819808 application/epub+zip 394259 2025-07-04T05:08:22.704772 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 382456 2025-07-04T05:08:19.587791 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 270503 2022-09-04T09:30:22.335176 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 212530 2025-07-04T05:08:13.589834 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 212115 2012-08-13T10:44:38 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 212110 2012-08-13T10:44:32 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 21266 2025-07-04T05:08:22.829754 application/rdf+xml 21684 2025-07-04T05:08:16.309813 image/jpeg 4686 2025-07-04T05:08:16.061806 image/jpeg 81157 2012-08-16T11:05:50 application/octet-stream application/zip 104125 2012-08-16T11:19:52 application/octet-stream application/zip 81133 2012-08-16T11:05:50 application/octet-stream application/zip 179136 2025-07-04T05:08:13.891827 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia