ABSTRACT
There have been sweeping changes in international politics and European security since 1989. Nowhere have the changes been greater than in regard to the former Soviet Union. The Cold War is over. The Soviet Union itself has ceased to exist. Marxism-Leninism has been discredited and abandoned. The division of Germany has ended. The Soviet empire in Eastern Europe has been swept away, and the forward deployment of Soviet troops and military equipment in the middle of Europe is no more. The geopolitics of Europe have been transformed fundamentally.
