Interview with Volker Perthes
Published on by Daniel Fiott and Volker PerthesIn the tenth of European Geostrategy’s interview series, Daniel Fiott speaks with Volker Perthes, of the Institute for Foreign and Security Policy in Berlin.
In the tenth of European Geostrategy’s interview series, Daniel Fiott speaks with Volker Perthes, of the Institute for Foreign and Security Policy in Berlin.
The Common Security and Defence Policy was conceived of as a means to allow Europeans to pool their military power in service of a common European interest. But are we now reaching an endpoint where Europeans will serve the British interest – the United Kingdom being the only great power left in the European ring?
Thomas Renard and Sven Biscop sent me a copy of their recently published edited volume entitled ‘The European Union and Emerging Powers in the 21st Century’. This is my review of it.
What sort of international actor is the European Union? Which political forces have sought to incarnate its identity as a global power? What social logics have been operating to redefine its security and strategic cultures? What is the character of the European Union’s emerging ‘grand strategy’?
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?