Reshaping Europe In A Multipolar World: Can The EU Rise To The Challenge?

Globalisation and the emergence of economic players such as Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRIC) have led to predictions that US hegemony will quickly decline as a new world order emerges. With the European Union (EU) also facing a downgrading of its own status – as economic, political and cultura...

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Main Author: Dean Carroll
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Metropolitan University Prague 2011-09-01
Series:Central European Journal of International & Security Studies
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Online Access:http://static.cejiss.org/data/uploaded/13835989336537/cejiss_5_2_caroll.pdf
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description Globalisation and the emergence of economic players such as Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRIC) have led to predictions that US hegemony will quickly decline as a new world order emerges. With the European Union (EU) also facing a downgrading of its own status – as economic, political and cultural power shifts from west to east – now is the time to ensure the Union has a strategy in place to remain an influential global actor despite its lack of natural resources and member state sovereign debt arising from the 2008/9 economic crisis. Only concerted efforts at institutional future-proofing (or widening and deepening plus) by the EU and a global vision for the supranational body will ensure its survival and prosperity.
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Reshaping Europe In A Multipolar World: Can The EU Rise To The Challenge?
Central European Journal of International & Security Studies
The EU
multipolarity
sovereign debt crisis
BRIC
title Reshaping Europe In A Multipolar World: Can The EU Rise To The Challenge?
title_full Reshaping Europe In A Multipolar World: Can The EU Rise To The Challenge?
title_fullStr Reshaping Europe In A Multipolar World: Can The EU Rise To The Challenge?
title_full_unstemmed Reshaping Europe In A Multipolar World: Can The EU Rise To The Challenge?
title_short Reshaping Europe In A Multipolar World: Can The EU Rise To The Challenge?
title_sort reshaping europe in a multipolar world can the eu rise to the challenge
topic The EU
multipolarity
sovereign debt crisis
BRIC
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