Following the end of the Cold War and European Union enlargement, in what sense does Eastern Europe continue to exist as a meaningful geo-political concept? In addressing this question, contributors to this volume--Alex Cistelecan, Robert Bideleux, Katalin Mikl ssy and Dieter Segert--tease out the implications for an 'Area Studies' approach to the region. They examine its contradictory situation within discourses of 'orientalisation' on one hand,...