The Uncertain Legacy of Crisis : European Foreign Policy Faces The Future

Richard Youngs

The European Union is mired in the worst crisis it has seen for many decades. And the crisis does not stop at Europe’s edge. It threatens to undercut the EU’s ambitions to develop a coherent and active foreign policy, but it is also forcing European states to reevaluate their approach to security and defence. Richard Youngs examines the legacy of the crisis and what it will mean for the EU’s international role. The fallout undermines the EU’s foreign policy capacity and tarnishes its normative brand, compelling some member states to focus on realpolitik and their own national-level policies. But there are also signs of enhanced European cooperation, greater international ambition, and deepened commitment to the values of a liberal world order. Youngs details how the EU can craft an effective foreign policy strategy while confronting an internal economic crisis and a reshaped global order.

Richard Youngs Richard Youngs is a senior associate at Carneige Europe and is part of the of the Carnegie Endowment’s Democracy and Rule of Law Program. He is also a professor of international relations at the University of Warwick.

Contents

Introduction
1. More Than an Economic Crisis
2. Boon or Bane for European Global Influence
3. Geoeconomic Europe
4. Asia’s Peninsula
5. Goodbye, Liberal World Order?
6. Conclusion: Redesigning Global Europe.