Crisis and EU foreign policy / Book
Europe's decline and fall
29/11/2010 By Richard Youngs
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The Lisbon Treaty celebrates its first birthday. While Brussels has immersed itself in seemingly arcane debates over institutional fine-tuning, the scales of global power have tipped decisively against the European Union.
Europe's Decline and Fall: The struggle against global irrelevance (Profile Books, 2010) by Richard Youngs, is a critique of how Europe is dealing with its diminishing international power. It addresses European responses to the financial crisis, the emerging multipolar world, new security challenges, questions of European identity, and human rights concerns around the world.
This is a catchy and accessible volume, with an overarching narrative: in a rush to deal with decline, European governments err in defensively abandoning many of the EU's supposedly core values. So, what do we do about it?
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Keywords
Democracy European Union Human rights SecurityBio author: Richard Youngs
Democracy promotion. EU foreign policy.
