Europe’s World

Policy Paradigms, Strategic Thinking and the Anti-Liberal Challenge

The EU’s international environment is increasingly characterized by power politics, great-power rivalry, ideological contestation and war. This has challenged the liberal-internationalist identity that has been at the heart of the EU since its birth. This book examines how the EU has responded to these new realities. It analyses the introduction of a flurry of concepts including European sovereignty, strategic autonomy, civilization, responsibility and strategic compass, and asks whether these signal a reconsideration of foreign policy objectives, a new strategic orientation or possibly a paradigm shift.

The book develops a theoretical framework on policy paradigms, worldviews, grand strategy, strategic narratives and the drivers of institutional change followed by chapters on the anti-liberal challenge, the evolution of the EU framework of ideas, the search for grand strategy and strategic autonomy, the response to Russian aggression and imperial thinking, and continuity and change in EU unity, working groups, green leadership and strategic communication.

Contributor: Filippo Costa Buranelli (Contributions by), Nicholas Michelsen (Contributions by), Pablo De Orellana (Contributions by), Joachim Koops (Contributions by), Anna Michalski (Contributions by), Iulian Romanyshyn (Contributions by), Ali Tekin (Contributions by), Anne-Sophie Maass (Contributions by), Gjovalin Macaj (Contributions by), August Danielson (Contributions by), Gert Tinggaard Svendsen (Contributions by), Elsa Hedling (Contributions by), Knud Erik Jørgensen (Edited by), Tonny Brems Knudsen (Edited by), Laura Landorff (Edited by)

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