Record Details     « New Search       Brief Record Full Record MARC Record     Bibliographic Data Control Number muse65600 Control Number Identifier MdBmJHUP Date and Time of Latest Transaction 20180103104320.0 General Information 170830s2017 nyu o 00 0 eng d International Standard Book Number 9781501716683   1501716689   9781501716669   9781501716676 System Control Number (OCoLC)1003132363 Cataloging Source MdBmJHUP MdBmJHUP Library of Congress Call Number JN30 .L336 2017 Dewey Decimal Classification Number 341.242/2 23 Main Entry - Personal Name Le Gloannec, Anne-Marie, author. Title Statement Continent by Default [electronic resource] : The European Union and the Demise of Regional Order / Anne Marie Le Gloannec Physical Description 1 online resource (pages cm) Formatted Contents Note Introduction : geopolitics without power politics -- From a strategy by default to a grand strategy? : in the beginning was enlargement -- The limits of enlargement : the end of certainties -- Peace, war, and confetti : an elusive security policy -- Boundaries and borderlands : from inside out? -- A crisis in the making? : the refugee crisis -- Competitive decadence? : Russia and the EU -- Conclusion : the waning geography of influence Summary, Etc. "In Continent by Default, Anne Marie Le Gloannec 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"--Publisher's Web site Subject Added Entry - Corporate Name European Union Subject Added Entry - Geographic Name Europe -- Foreign relations Subject Added Entry - Topical Term European cooperation Index Term - Genre/Form Electronic books. -- local Added Entry - Corporate Name Project Muse           Physical Location           Digital Copy Not Available          Add to Book Cart  |   Download MARC