Superpower Europe

The European Union's Silent Revolution
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-5095-6525-2
Verlag: Polity Press

Buch, Englisch, 128 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 218 mm, Gewicht: 272 g

The European Union is in a state of revolution. In response to new global realities from the climate crisis to the Covid-19 pandemic, the war in Ukraine to the emerging cold war with China, the EU is transforming into a federal superpower in a new world order.

In this timely intervention, Marc De Vos gets to the heart of the challenges facing the European Union as it undergoes this silent revolution. Charting its changing mission and identity from a European community into a geostrategic coalition of Eurasian countries; from a union of values into a union of power; and from a market project into a state project, he exposes what’s at stake for both the EU itself and its partners across the world. But retaining this new superpower status, he cautions, is not a given. The European Union’s de facto metamorphosis must mature into a democratic political structure or it risks a crisis of legitimacy that could ultimately threaten the stability of the European Union itself.

Autoren/Hrsg.

De Vos, Marc

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Abbreviations

Introduction: Silent Revolution in Europe
1 Fault Lines
2 A Geostrategic Project
3 A Superpower Project
4 A State Project
5 The Crossroads
Conclusion: Europe’s Choice

Afterword: Five Beacons
Notes

Über Autor(innen)

Marc De Vos is co-CEO of the Itinera Institute (Brussels) and a professor at Ghent University (Belgium). He is a policy expert, author, columnist and strategy consultant, with lengthy experience at the intersection of law, economics and policy.