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  • This Is Not a New World Order

    Europe Rediscovers Geopolitics, from Ukraine to Taiwan

    by Sven Biscop ...
    If every event in international politics is a turning point, one can only go and lie down, out of sheer dizziness. In reality, we have been living in the same multipolar world for more than three decades. Europeans are only now again getting used to how such a world of great powers works. In the process, the European Union has rediscovered the importance of geopolitics. Without geopolitical ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Grand Strategy in 10 Words

    A Guide to Great Power Politics in the 21st Century

    by Sven Biscop ...
    In a world that has returned to great power rivalry, understanding the grand strategy of these powers is crucial. This book introduces ten key terms for analysing grand strategy and shows how the world’s great powers – the United States, China, Russia and the European Union (EU) – shape their strategic decisions today.Outlining the steps needed for a less confrontational grand strategy and a more ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • The European Union and Emerging Powers in the 21st Century

    How Europe Can Shape a New Global Order

    by Sven Biscop ...
    The emergence of new powers fundamentally questions the traditional views on international relations, multilateralism or security as a range of countries now competes for regional and global leadership - economically, politically, technologically and militarily. As the focus of international attention shifts from the Atlantic to the Pacific, the European states in particular are seen to lose ... Read more

    $114.04 CAD

  • Peace Without Money, War Without Americans

    Can European Strategy Cope?

    by Sven Biscop ...
    Britain and France were surprised at having to convince the US of the need to intervene in Libya in 2011. The French intervention in Mali in 2013 confirmed the picture; Washington will support European action, but only if and when Europe takes the initiative. Just as the focus of American strategy is shifting to Asia and the Pacific, vital interests in the European neighbourhood require resolute ... Read more

    $96.18 CAD

  • Euro-Mediterranean Security: A Search for Partnership

    A Search for Partnership

    by Sven Biscop ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    This title was first published in 2003. This work provides a clearer understanding of the EU's approach towards security in the Mediterranean. After examining the EU's interests and the potential threats to security in the region, it analyzes EU security policy towards the region as a whole, through the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership, and towards all disputes and conflicts in the area. It ... Read more

    $142.90 CAD

  • The European Security Strategy

    A Global Agenda for Positive Power

    by Sven Biscop ...
    In December 2003 the EU adopted the European Security Strategy, the first ever common strategic vision of the Member States. This volume examines how the Strategy can form the basis of a comprehensive approach that integrates all dimensions of EU external action, from aid and trade to defence, under the same agenda of 'effective multilateralism' or global governance. This agenda can be translated ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • European Strategy in the 21st Century

    New Future for Old Power

    by Sven Biscop ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in European Security and Strategy
    This book argues that Europe, through the European Union (EU), should act as a great power in the 21st century.The course of world politics is determined by the interaction between great powers. Those powers are the US, the established power; Russia, the declining power; China, the rising power; and the EU, the power that doesn’t know whether it wants to be a power. If the EU does not just want to ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • Europe, Strategy and Armed Forces

    The making of a distinctive power

    by Sven Biscop, Jo Coelmont ...
    Series series Cass Military Studies
    This book examines how the European Union can pursue a grand strategy and become a distinct global actor in a world of emerging great powers.At the grand strategic level, its sheer economic size makes the EU a global power. However, the EU needs to take into account that many international actors continue to measure power mostly by assessing military capability. To preserve its status as an ... Read more

    $105.80 CAD

  • The Routledge Handbook of European Security

    Edited by Sven Biscop, Richard Whitman ...
    This new Handbook brings together key experts on European security from the academic and policy worlds to examine the European Union (EU) as an international security actor.In the two decades since the end of the Cold War, the EU has gradually emerged as an autonomous actor in the field of security, aiming to safeguard European security by improving global security. However, the EU’s development ... Read more

    $105.80 CAD

  • The EU and the European Security Strategy

    Forging a Global Europe

    Edited by Sven Biscop, Jan Joel Andersson ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in European Politics
    The European Security Strategy (ESS) has become an important reference framework for the EU since its inception in 2003. Without strategy an actor can only really be a ‘reactor’ to events and developments. In the ESS the EU now has a strategy, with which it has the potential of shifting boundaries and shaping the World.This volume explores this statement and examines the underlying concepts and ... Read more

    $63.20 CAD

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  • The European Union in the Security of Europe

    From Cold War to Terror War

    by Steve Marsh, Wyn Rees ...
    This book examines the European Union’s contribution to providing security in Europe amidst an increasingly complex and challenging environment.In this new and comprehensive guide to the EU's role in security since the end of the Cold War, the authors offer an explanation of EU internal and external security regimes, and argue that the Union has become an important exporter of security within its ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Modern Diplomacy

    Edited by Andrew F. Cooper, Jorge Heine, Ramesh Thakur ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    At a time when diplomatic practices and the demands imposed on diplomats are changing quite radically, and many foreign ministries feel they are being left behind, there is a need to understand the various forces that are affecting the profession. Diplomacy remains a salient activity in today's world in which the basic authoritative actor is still the state. At the same time, in some respects the ... Read more

    $55.99 CAD