Enduring Strengths: Europe's Postcrisis Horizons

by Javier Solana, Judy Dempsey, John Peterson

With the European Union mired in an ongoing debt crisis and the U.S. shifting its strategic focus to a rising Asia, it has become almost fashionable to count Europe out as a global power. But the EU’s past successes and enduring strengths suggest that Europe’s postcrisis prospects need not be bleak. Javier Solana looks at the EU’s role in the Asian Century. Judy Dempsey proposes a new vision for the trans-Atlantic relationship. And John Peterson explains why bashing the EU is so easy—and so wrong.

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39 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 24, 2013

About the author

Javier Solana is president of ESADE Center for Global Economy and Geopolitics, Spain, and distinguished fellow in Foreign Policy at Brookings Institution. He is also member of the board of the International Crisis Group and the European Council on Foreign Relations. He served as Secretary General of NATO, as the European Union's High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy and as Secretary General of the Council of the European Union.