ASSESSMENTS

Europe: A Shifting Battleground, Part 1

Jun 7, 2011 | 12:21 GMT

STRATFOR

Summary

Defense ministers from NATO members states will meet with Russian Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov on June 9 to discuss the ballistic missile defense (BMD) network that will be set up in Europe. BMD is just one way Central Europe is responding to geopolitical shifts in Europe that have created a strengthening German-Russian relationship as Russia resurges into its former Soviet sphere of influence.

In the first of a two-part series, STRATFOR examines the geopolitical changes in Europe that have shifted Moscow and Washington's focus to the former Communist countries in Central Europe. (With STRATFOR maps)...

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