Can Europe defend its social model in a globalized world when the US, China, India and Russia are enhancing their national sovereignties and playing power politics? This original and informative book addresses such questions and considers if Europe, although it is not a ‘super state’, would be able to impose norms over force.
Table of Content
Why Europe Cannot Be a Superpower Norms over Power Norms for What Preferences? The Rejection of Realpolitik European Governance and American Sovereignism Is Constitutionalizing the World Order the Answer? Norms and Geopolitics Conclusion
About the author
ZAKI LAIDI is Senior Research Fellow and Professor of International Relations at Sciences Po (Paris) and at the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium. He has extensively published on International Relations, globalization and Europe. He recently published
The Great Disruption, Polity, 2007, and edited
EU Foreign Policy in a Globalized World, Routledge, 2008.
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