European strategy in the 21st century : new future for old power / Sven Biscop.

By:

Biscop, Sven [author]

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Series: Routledge studies in European security and strategyPublication details: London ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2019.Description: xi, 153 pages ; 25 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

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volume

ISBN:

9781138384729 (pbk.)

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LOC classification:

JN30 B54 2019

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Contents:

Values and geopolitics : Europe is who and where it is -- Strategy : what can Europe do, what does Europe want? -- Europe and the (other) great powers -- Europe and its neighbours -- Europe, military power and NATO -- European defence and maybe even a European army -- Brexit, strategy, and the EU : Britain takes leave -- Conclusion : which Europe are we doing this for?

Summary: This book argues that Europe, through the European Union (EU), should act as a great power in the 21st century. The course of world politics is determined by the interaction between great powers. Those powers are the US, the established power; Russia the declining power; China, the rising power; and the EU, the power that doesn’t know whether it wants to be a power. If the EU does not just want to undergo the policies of the other powers it will have to become one itself, but it should differ in its strategy. In this book, Sven Biscop seeks to demonstrate that the EU has the means to pursue a distinctive great power strategy, a middle way between dreamy idealism and unprincipled pragmatism, and can play a crucial stabilizing role in this increasingly unstable world. Written by a leading scholar, this book will be of much interest to students of European security, EU policy, strategic studies and international relations.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Materials specified	URL	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode
Books	Ladislao N. Diwa Memorial Library Reserve Section	Non-fiction	RUS JN30 B54 2019 (Browse shelf(Opens below))		Link to resource	Room use only	79493		00082705

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This book argues that Europe, through the European Union (EU), should act as a great power in the 21st century. The course of world politics is determined by the interaction between great powers. Those powers are the US, the established power; Russia the declining power; China, the rising power; and the EU, the power that doesn’t know whether it wants to be a power. If the EU does not just want to undergo the policies of the other powers it will have to become one itself, but it should differ in its strategy. In this book, Sven Biscop seeks to demonstrate that the EU has the means to pursue a distinctive great power strategy, a middle way between dreamy idealism and unprincipled pragmatism, and can play a crucial stabilizing role in this increasingly unstable world. Written by a leading scholar, this book will be of much interest to students of European security, EU policy, strategic studies and international relations.

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