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The treachery of strategies : a call for true EU strategic partnerships / Thomas Renard

Type de contenu
  • Texte
Type de médiation
  • sans médiation
Titre(s)
  • The treachery of strategies : a call for true EU strategic partnerships / Thomas Renard
Auteur(s)
Autre(s) responsabilité(s)
Editeur, producteur
  • Gent [Belgium] : Academia press, Brussels : Royal institute for international relations, 2011
Description matérielle
  • 1 vol. (41 p.) : carte, tabl. ; 24 cm
Collection
  • Egmont papers 2406-3762 45
ISBN
  • 978-90-382-1744-4
Appartient à la collection
  • Egmont papers - Royal Institute for International Relations IRRI-KIIB (Printed) 2406-3762 45
Classification décimale Dewey
  • 327.401 722
Note(s)
  • Avril 2011
Note sur les bibliographies et les index
  • Notes bibliogr.
Résumé ou extrait
  • Extrait du résumé p. III : "In September 2010, the European Council discussed for the first time the European Union’s (EU) strategic partnerships, a foreign policy concept that was until then unknown to most people – including EU officials. This discussion was certainly needed in these times of geopolitical upheaval. The global shift of power from the Atlantic to the Pacific forces the EU and its Member States to fundamentally rethink their foreign policy with a strong focus on great and emerging powers; otherwise the EU is at risk of falling into global irrelevance. The 2009 Copenhagen climate conference was just a foretaste of what global irrelevance could mean. The recent events in the Arab world have proved again that Europe is not at ease with contemporary challenges, including in its own neighbourhood. To cope with the coming multipolar world, the EU should invest time and energy in its relationships with great and emerging powers, i.e. in the so-called strategic partnerships, because the more the world becomes globalised and interconnected, the more the EU will be confronted with them – a confrontation that can lead either to cooperation or competition. Given that all international actors need one another if they are to cope with issues as crucial as climate change, nuclear proliferation and sustainable development, cooperation should be privileged over competition. Current events in the Arab world – as important as they are – should not distract the EU from its vital long-term strategic interest: secure a relevant status in the coming multipolar environment dominated by great powers. On the basis of a review of EU documents, official and informal, as well as a certain amount of interviews with European officials, this paper concludes that the EU has today, in 2011, ten strategic partnerships with third countries: Brazil, Canada, China, India, Japan, Mexico, Russia, South Africa, South Korea and the United States."
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