ABSTRACT
This chapter shows how the developments in the Eastern neighborhood are likely to re-shape our understanding of European power. It argues that since the fall of 2013, many citizens of Ukraine have been entitled to re-appropriating this line. The Euromaidan was a popular effort to enforce a political choice in favor of signing the association agreement with the European Union (EU) on the treacherous Ukrainian ruling class. The gist of the argument made in Milan Kundera's seminal essay is that the prospect of dying "for Hungary and Europe" did not mean a literal threat to Europe beyond Hungary, that is, to the Western world. The "complacency" of those living in the "comfort zone" without a "geopolitical other" is then the other side of the self-stylization as a "postmodern" polity, that is, as a polity that would rather go on pretending that history and politics were dead.
