Enhancing Europe’s Global Power: A Scenario Exercise with Eight Proposals

Artikel

In the present context of intensifying competition between the major trading economies and potentially game-changing technological developments, the European Union is generally seen as the weaker party. Lacking the ‘hard power’ derived from military capabilities, it has laid claim to a ‘soft power’ of normative influence externally, yet even that is only partially utilised. Nor has Europe been able to exercise the power to coerce – ‘sharp power’ – commensurate with its economic weight as a trading bloc equivalent in size and reach to the US or China, its most prominent global competitors. How can Europe strengthen its position, and in what fields? Through a scenario exercise, we develop eight policy proposals aimed at countering Europe´s vulnerabilities and enabling it to assert its sharp and soft power more effectively. Specifically, we consider the feasibility, means and scope for their realisation. Together, they provide a transformative agenda for the EU’s position in the world.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Journal: Global Policy ; ISSN: 1758-5899 ; Volume: 11 ; Year: 2020 ; Issue: 1 ; Pages: 128-142 ; Hoboken, NJ: Wiley

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Politik

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Abels, Christoph M. ; Anheier, Helmut K. ; Begg, Iain ; Featherstone, Kevin
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Wiley
• (wo): Hoboken, NJ
• (wann): 2020

Weitere Informationen

• DOI: doi:10.1111/1758-5899.12792
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/230060
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ