Europe as a Stronger Global Actor

Simon Duke is Professor of European Policies at the European Institute of Public Administration. He is also a Senior Research Fellow at Maastricht University, the Netherlands. He is Executive Editor of the Journal of European Integration.

• Introduction.- Chapter 1. The EU’s strategic unconsciousness and normative hubris.- Chapter 2. Existential doubts and Strategic dilemmas.- Chapter 3. In search of strategy.- Chapter 4. The return of geopolitics and relations to the east.- Chapter 5. Geopolitics in the post-Arab Spring.- Chapter 6. Transatlantic relations and Europe’s missing Asia pivot.- Chapter 7. Europe’s harder edges: Security and Defence.- Chapter 8. Putting effectiveness into multilateralism.- Chapter 9. Strategy, implementation and means.- Chapter 10. Reconceptualizing the world and the liberal delusion.