Thoughts on the Concept of West and East in Europe
Hugh Seton‐Watson
EUROPE AT FIRST SIGHT SEEMS A WORD WITH CLEAR MEANing; but a further look shows it to be most ambiguous. The obvious meaning is geographical: Europe the north-west peninsula of Asian land mass. But even this not correct: there are three western peninsulas: Finland, Scandinavia and main European. Usually lumped together; at its narrowest point sea which divides these much wider than that separates Balkans from Anatolia - always reckoned Asia, indeed one portion constituted whole Asia when word was first used. I know because once swam across Bosphorus, would certainly never have tried sound between Elsinore Helsingborg.
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