ABSTRACT
The power structure in post-Cold War Europe has been unipolar, the one and only pole being a symbiosis between the United States and major EU powers. This symbiosis has affected the external and domestic policies of practically all states in Europe, be they members of the EU or NATO or not. Stability and democracy have been projected. The symbiosis has constrained, not least, the region’s non-pole powers. These are sometimes referred to as, for instance, the ‘small and medium powers’ which, as will be shown, is an analytically unfortunate label.
