Larivé, Maxime (2014) Western Strategic Poverty: The Ukrainian Crisis and the New World Order. Jean Monnet/Robert Schuman Paper Series Vol. 14 Special Issue, March 2014. [Working Paper]
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Abstract
From Introduction. The Ukrainian crisis, which deepened in February with the invasion of the Crimean peninsula by Russia, has exposed a serious poverty of strategy and leadership from Europe and the US. Such a lack of strategic vision in responding to the Ukrainian crisis, considered by Nicholas Burns among others, as one of the greatest crises in Europe since 1991, diverges between the European Union and the US. It is undeniable that the western leadership is unable to get its act together. In the US, the perpetual fratricide between the republicans and democrats over anything is affecting the development and implementation of sound foreign policies, while in the EU, there is no clear European leadership emerging, neither from the 28 Member States nor the High Representative and Presidents of the Council and Commission. The EU is once again facing its perpetual policy of risk aversion. On the one hand, the US remains conflicted in identifying its identity in this post-liberal world order, while the EU difficulty faces the inevitable limitation of its soft power. With a West in crisis, no decent strategy and/or policy to unravel, or at least contain, the Ukrainian crisis can emerge in this axiomatic moment with the making of the new world order.
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Subjects for non-EU documents: | EU policies and themes > External relations > common foreign & security policy 1993--European Global Strategy EU policies and themes > External relations > EU-US Countries > Russia Countries > Ukraine |
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Series: | Series > University of Miami, Florida-EU Center of Excellence > Jean Monnet/Robert Schuman Paper Series |
Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email kms214@pitt.edu |
Official EU Document: | No |
Language: | English |
Date Deposited: | 04 May 2015 16:03 |
Number of Pages: | 6 |
Last Modified: | 04 May 2015 16:03 |
URI: | http://aei.pitt.edu/id/eprint/63623 |
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