Overview
- Advocates a new grand strategy for the European Union to defend the liberal world order
- Argues for a sense of solidarity and distribution of benefits and burdens
- Recommends key strategic choices, including the renewal of the transatlantic alliance, managing Russia, and countering China
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics (PSEUP)
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This book proposes that the European Union should craft a grand strategy to navigate the new world order based on a four-pronged approach. First, European decision-makers (both in Brussels and across EU capitals) should take a broader view of their existential interests at stake and devote greater time and resources to serving them within the wider cause of the liberal order. Second, Europe needs to help reinvigorate the West by restoring a sense of solidarity through fairer distribution of benefits and burdens. Third, it should develop separate strategies for parts of the world, such as Russia and China, where liberal values are not likely to be attainable in the foreseeable future yet order is still necessary. Fourth, Europe needs to clarify its core interests elsewhere and help stabilize the Middle East and Africa. With this book, the author seeks to lay the essential building blocks for developing a European strategy, which is a complex process involving multiple decision-makersand institutions.
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“Europe’s grand strategy is a unique and bold work. … the book is a valuable contribution to scholarly debates on European studies. It is also a timely testament to the weight and ambition of the EU’s Strategic compass and the visions European bureaucrats have incorporated into the strategy.” (Mahmoud Javadi, International Affairs, Vol. 98 (4), 2022) "If one agrees that a ‘good crisis should never go to waste,’ then the post-pandemic world presents the European Union with a unique opportunity. It can either become a global actor with influence adequate to its economic standing, or a passive object of history. Szewczyk’s book is an excellent guide on how to take the first path."
- Radosław Sikorski, Member of the European Parliament and Former Foreign and Defence Minister of Poland
“Bart Szewczyk is the ultimate insider, having served both the United States and the European Union, where his influence can been seen in the emergence of the 'geopolitical Commission'. His timely book is a much-needed call for strategic thinking in Brussels and the member states.”
- Brendan Simms, Professor in the History of International Relations at the University of Cambridge, UK
- Radosław Sikorski, Member of the European Parliament and Former Foreign and Defence Minister of Poland
“Bart Szewczyk is the ultimate insider, having served both the United States and the European Union, where his influence can been seen in the emergence of the 'geopolitical Commission'. His timely book is a much-needed call for strategic thinking in Brussels and the member states.”
- Brendan Simms, Professor in the History of International Relations at the University of Cambridge, UK
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Bart M.J. Szewczyk served as Member of the Policy Planning Staff at the US State Department and Adviser on Global Affairs at the European Commission’s think-tank. He is Adjunct Professor at Sciences Po in Paris and author of two books: European Sovereignty, Legitimacy, and Power (2020) and Partners of First Resort: America, Europe, and the Future of the West (with David McKean, 2020).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Europe’s Grand Strategy
Book Subtitle: Navigating a New World Order
Authors: Bart M. J. Szewczyk
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60523-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-60522-3Published: 13 February 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-60525-4Published: 13 February 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-60523-0Published: 12 February 2021
Series ISSN: 2662-5873
Series E-ISSN: 2662-5881
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 204
Number of Illustrations: 12 illustrations in colour
Topics: European Politics, International Organization, Globalization, Political History, Regionalism