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This book argues that the European Union can, in cooperation with others, play a crucial role in averting a regressive world.
The world has been splintered by geopolitics and yet is still bound by interdependence. As competition between the world’s great powers surges, multiple trends point towards the collapse of the international order. Russia’s aggression against Ukraine marks a tipping point, potentially turning an already contested world into one of lasting regression on the political, security, economic, social and environmental fronts. While this scenario is not inevitable, it will take determined leadership to ward it off.
This book argues that the European Union can, in cooperation with others, play a crucial role in averting a regressive world. However, doing so will require a decisive change of gear: deepening European integration while pursuing EU enlargement, enhancing all dimensions of Europe’s power, and shifting from crisis management to delivering structural solutions to systemic challenges.
“Forging Europe’s Leadership: Global Trends, Russian Aggression and the Risk of a Regressive World offers a unique tool for thinking about how Europe can deploy its leadership in the face of mounting geopolitical headwinds. Russia’s aggression against Ukraine has amplified many trends that are eroding the international order. There is an urgent need to reverse this drift and to empower Europe to withstand competition and promote cooperation.” — Arancha González, dean of the Paris School of International Affairs and formerly Minister of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation of Spain
“A thorough and accurate analysis of the war in Ukraine and of its international consequences, with valuable contributions from a range of experts. The book is an intellectual project of great value that sheds light on, and offers interesting insights into, a complex and fundamental issue for the future of the European continent.” — Enrico Letta, president of the Jacques Delors Institute and formerly Prime Minister of Italy
This book sets out the principles that could underpin a strategic policy for transport. Instead of focusing piecemeal on trying (and failing) to get from place to place ever faster, we need to think about how and where we want the economy to develop, and about how new the digital technologies can help achieve this.
This book provides a comparative look at the discourses and practices of abortion rights across Europe.
Trade is being weaponized – and this isn’t good. As politicians on both sides of the Atlantic raise the stakes, trade is increasingly a tool of coercion to achieve strategic influence. This book looks at the risks for us all as trade becomes an instrument of foreign policy, and shows how politicians could turn things around.
Trade is no longer just the ships, planes and lorries that move the goods we buy around the world or the services we consume either physically or digitally. This book examines the US, Chinese and Russian approaches to `strategic trade’ and argues that Europe must adapt or lose out.
If climate action remains marginal at this late hour, it will fail. In dismay at the inaction of governments, citizen groups are showing how people can use their real power and authentic voice to drive change. In the workplace, in politics and in local communities, people are stepping forward both to demand transformation and to make it happen.
This book describes the economic and political history of the past half a century, examining the challenges confronted by successive governments and their Chancellors, the policies employed for good or ill, and the desperate search for a panacea that could arrest the nation’s relative decline and return the country to its supposed former glories.
