In Continent by Default, Anne Marie Le Gloannec, a distinguished analyst of contemporary Europe, considers the European Union as a geopolitical project. This book offers a comprehensive narrative of how the European Union came to organize the continent, first by default through enlargement and in a more proactive, innovative, but not always successful way. The EU was not conceived as a foreign-policy actor, she says, and the Union was an innocent on questions of geopolitics. For readers who may wonder how the EU arrived at Brexit, the invasion of Ukraine, and the refugee crisis, Le Gloannec ties events to the EU's long-term failure to think in politically strategic terms. Le Gloannec takes readers through the process by which, under the security umbrella of the United States, the European Commission engineered a new way for states and societies to interact. Continent by Default shows the Commission domesticated international relations and promoted peace by including new members-enlargement was the most significant tool the EU used from its inception to organize the continent, but the EU also tied itself to its regional neighbors through various programs that too often gave those neighbors the advantage. As Continent by Default makes clear, the EU cannot devise strategy because foreign policy remains the privilege of national governments. It is a geopolitical actor without geopolitical means.
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Continent by Default
Continent by Default
The European Union and the Demise of Regional Order
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Names: Le Gloannec, AnneMarie, author. Title: Continent by default : the European Union and the demise of regional order / Anne Marie Le Gloannec. Description: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2017. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2017041693 (print) | LCCN 2017042208 (ebook) | ISBN 9781501716683 (pdf) | ISBN 9781501716676 (epub/mobi) | ISBN 9781501716669 | ISBN 9781501716669 (cloth : alk. paper) Subjects: LCSH: European Union. | Europe—Foreign relations. | European cooperation. Classification: LCC JN30 (ebook) | LCC JN30 .L336 2017 (print) | DDC 341.242/2—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017041693
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Contents
Introduction: Geopolitics without Power Politics
1. In the Beginning Was Enlargement
2. The Limits of Enlargement: The End of Certainties
3. Peace, War, and Confetti: An Elusive Security Policy
4. Boundaries and Borderlands: From Inside Out?
5. A Crisis in the Making? The Refugee Crisis
6. Competitive Decadence? Russia and the EU
Conclusion: Can the EU Survive in a Postliberal World?
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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BEAC BiH BSEC CBC CBSS CEECs CEFTA CEI CFE CFSP CHP CIS CMEA (Comecon)
Abbreviations
ArcticCouncil African,Caribbean,andPacificcountries Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi (Justice and Development Party) BarentsEuroArcticCouncil BosniaiHerzegovina BlackSeaEconomicCooperation CrossBorderCooperation CounciloftheBalticSeaStates CentralandEasternEuropeanCountries CentralEuropeanFreeTradeAgreement CentralEuropeanInitiative TreatyonConventionalArmedForcesinEurope CommonForeignandSecurityPolicy Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi (Republican People’s Party) CommonwealthofIndependentStates Council for Mutual Economic Assistance