1st Edition

Europe's Strategic Future From Crisis to Coherence?

By Sarah Raine Copyright 2019
264 Pages
by Routledge

264 Pages
by Routledge

Europe has suffered a decade of crises, with sovereign-debt troubles leading to austerity policies that exacerbated divisions inside member states and between them. Thereafter the Union was confronted with the challenges posed by a revanchist Russia in Ukraine and by a surge in migration from the Middle East and other conflict zones. The June 2016 UK vote to leave the Union threatened further... Read more

Introduction

1. The context and anatomy of crises

2. The internal consequences of crises

3. Europe, the EU and foreign affairs

4. Europe, the EU, security and defence

5. Determining Europe’s strategic future

Conclusion

Biography

Sarah Raine is Consulting Senior Fellow for Geopolitics and Strategy. She worked for three years in the IISS–Asia office in Singapore as a research fellow on Chinese Foreign and Security Policy. She has previously worked as a Director of Barchester Group, a UK-based strategic and corporate financial advisory company and as a diplomat in the UK's Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO). Sarah is also a non-resident Transatlantic Fellow with the Asia programme of The German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF).