What is wrong with Europe? Why have Europeans not come to love European integration? Why are European liberals behaving like depressed hippies? How can the ‘European Nightmare’ in which Europeans now find themselves be transformed into a sustainable ‘European Dream’?
Is Declan Ganley an anti-European, or a pro-European in disguise? Why is European integration failing to deliver growth and security? How might a new Europe be re-constituted democratically in light of falling public support?
Today, the Group on Grand Strategy published its next ‘Strategic Snapshot’, entitled: ‘Three geographies – and societies: The European Union’s enduring problem’. It analyses the differing logics of geography that influence the policies of the Member States, and how these interact with the European Union, often pulling it in different directions, simultaneously.
Globalisation was the mantra of the 1990s. It was hailed as a new order, benign, progressive and the future. Yet it has impoverished the West as Europeans and Americans self-duped themselves with their own propaganda. What next?
Over the past year, many commentators have looked to the ascendancy of Germany – often with a degree of nervousness and trepidation – as the European Union’s pre-eminent Member State. But what are the prospects for Germany – as well as Britain and France – in the longer term?
The Group on Grand Strategy has published its first ‘Long Telegram’, entitled ‘The need to re-found European integration’. It charts the dislocations at the heart of the current European malaise, and goes on to offer a number of ways to constitute a liberal European identity to re-establish a new age of integration.
Is Germany at the end of History? Will it turn the European continent into a museum or an old people’s home? Can Europeans be saved from becoming the Last Men?
Is nationalism really the bogey-man it is often made out to be? Should pro-Europeans, in particular, dust off some nationalist ideology and use it to help bind together Europeans into a more progressive and deeply integrated political community?
Between the fifteenth and twentieth centuries, Europeans rose up and achieved hegemony over much of the world. How did such a small and seemingly peripheral continent, on the edge of Eurasia, manage to do it? This photo essay accounts for the foundations of European power.
The last decade was very eventful. The age was defined by Islamist terrorism, military intervention and economic globalisation, and often seemed to be running on fast forward. What will happen in the next ten years? Here are ten predictions!