Die Beiträge gehen auf zwei Tagungen zurück, die im Dezember 2000 und im Mai 2001 in Caesarea in Israel stattgefunden haben. Veranstaltet wurden sie von der Bertelsmann Stiftung, dem Centrum für angewandte Politikforschung der Universität München und dem Curiel Center for International Relations der Universität Tel Aviv. Inhalt: I. Beyond EU Enlargement: Alla Skvortova: Moldova and the EU: Security Aspects and National Identity (7-20); Oleksandr Pavliuk: Ukraine-EU Relations: At the Crossroads (21-28); Timofei V. Bordachev: Beyond EU Enlargement: Russian Challenges for the EU (29-37); Iris Kempe: The Schengen Agreement and EU Eastern Enlargement: Administrative Consequences and Political Discourse (39-49). II. Russia's Place in Europe: Bobo Lo: The Securitization of Russian Foreign Policy under Putin (51-63); Korina Kagan: Russian Hegemony over the Near Abroad in Comparative Perspective (65-84); Michael Thumann: There is no Business like Energy Business - Towards a New Energy and Security Charter for Europe and Russia (85-90). III. Varying Patterns of Regional Security: Erika Weinthal: International Organizations, Western Norms, and the Construction of Regional Security in Central Asia: Fact or Fiction? (91-101); Nadav Morag: Partition as a Tool for Conflict Resolution: Cyprus, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia in Retrospect (103-120); Nicholas Whyte: Reconciliation in the Balkans (121-124); Ofra Graicer: The Kosovo Affair: Spatial Reflections on Operational Though (125-130); Galia Press-Barnathan: American Hegemony and the Regionalization of Security after the Cold War - The European Example (131-149). IV. The Middle Eastern Deadlock: Asher Susser: Collective Identity, the Middle Eastern State and Peacemaking (151-159); Ranan D. Kuperman: Political Economy of Cooperation - Investment and Peace? (161-167); David Menashri: Iran and the West: Continuity and Change under Khatami's Presidency (169-183); Emily Landau: Dynamics of Multilateral Forums in the Middle East: The Case of Arms Control and Regional Security (185-191).