Introduction
Part1: The Political-Diplomatic Dimension: Eastern Insights
1. From Soviet Foreign Policy to Russian Foreign Policy: Conceptual Foundations and Ideas
2. The ‘Common European Home’ as Part of Gorbachev’s New Political Thinking in Foreign Policy and Its Relevance to Represent a New Diplomatic Architecture in Europe
3. Overcoming Mutual Fears: The Novelty and Weakness of the European Perestroika Policy
4. Russia’s Alternative Voices of the Early 1990s: Missed Opportunities for a New Multilateral Security Order in Europe and Eurasia
5. Continuities and Discontinuities in the Kremlin's Policy towards the European Community/European Union
Part2: The Political-Diplomatic Dimension: Western Insights
6. The European Community and Gorbachev (1985–1991): Change of Tune, Promises and Substance
7. From the Atlantic to the Urals: Gorbachev’s Europe and Delors’ Europe
8. The European Parliament, Perestroika and the Collapse of the Soviet Union (1985–1991)
9. Anglo-American Relations and Gorbachev’s Perestroika: a Path of Convergence or Divergence? (1985–1990)
10. The Quest for a Strategic Partnership: The EU’s Policy towards Russia and the Limits of Cooperation in the Short 1990s
Part3: The Economic Dimension
11. Eastern European Debates on the Future of Europe from Gorbachev to Yeltsin: Roads Not Taken
12. Economists Assessing Russia’s Political Transition (1990-1998)
13. A Brief Survey of Italian Economic Studies on the Collapse of the USSR
Part4: The Military and Technological Dimension
14. From Euromissiles to CSDP: The EU’s Strategic Relations with Russia and the US from Brezhnev and Reagan to Putin and Trump
15. Between Doubts and Enthusiasm: ESA-USSR Scientific Cooperation during Perestroika
16. Arctic Cooperation between USSR/Russia and Northern European Countries in the Late 1980s-Early 1990s: The End of the Cold War and the Beginning of the Great Opportunities Era?
17. Challenges and Opportunities for European Security: The Eastward Expansion of the Western European Union