This uniquely penetrating guide to where Europe as a whole, from the European Union to Russia, may be heading as it approaches the new millennium focuses on its historical driving forces, its politics and economics, and its strategic options. Michael Emerson draws on rare experience of Europe's new political and economic structures, from Brussels to Moscow, to explain Europe's contradictory tendencies towards both integration and conflict. He confronts the two strategic issues for the Europe of the early 21st century: how to ensure success for the euro and how to stabilize the wider Europe with a strong structure for EU-Russian relations.