The Three Paradigms of European security in Eastern Europe: Cooperation, Competition and Conflict.

The paper discusses and analyzes European security from the perspective of Eastern Europe. The main argument is that in the region the EU is faced and has to deal with three different paradigms of European security simultaneously: cooperation, competition and conflict. The problem and challenge for the EU is that as a consensual winwin actor it is not equally or necessarily at all well prepared to play all of them. The paper introduces the main policies and instruments the EU has developed for the region and discusses the main developments/operations the EU has undertaken. The paper ends with some conclusions pondering the relative weight the three paradigms can be expected to have as well as discussing the role of the EU in the region in the future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]