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Europe and the reshaped global order / Book

Mapping EU Strategic Partnerships

10/11/2011 By Giovanni Grevi, Gauri Khandekar

Power shifts make it harder to manage interdependence. Bilateral strategic partnerships offer the political infrastructure to address tensions and pave the way for cooperation. This mapping exercise offers the first comparative overview of the EU strategic partnerships with ten countries of systemic importance at the global and regional level, including the US and the BRICS. Based on a wealth of data, it shows that building strategic partnerships is work in progress and that the EU still struggles to engage beyond trade and economics.

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Keywords

Brazil Canada China EU Foreign Policy European Union India Japan Mexico Regional powers Russia South Africa South Korea Strategic partnerships United States

Bio author: Giovanni Grevi

Global governance reform. Multilateralism. EU security and defence policy. EU institutional reform.

Bio author: Gauri Khandekar

EU Strategic Partnerships. EU-Asia relations. EU-India relations.