Continent by default : the European Union and the demise of regional order /

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 succes...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Le Gloannec, Anne-Marie (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, [2017]
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.