Europe vis-a-vis an unbalanced multipolar world
The Federalist Year LI, 2009, Single Issue, (based on Presentation at an International seminar hosted under the aegis of the Committee for a European Federal State, 7 March 2009, Strasbourg)
Language of the original publication: English
To their great consternation, the Europeans cannot even draw comfort from the idea that the danger they face is new, the changes recent, and their own weaknesses attributable to difficulties adapting to a world that is changing with bewildering speed, given that the fundamental problems they must urgently solve have been on the table for decades.
1. State of play - then just as now
1.1. About the premonitory Tindemans Report
1.2. The U.S. factor at the heart of the problem
2. Myths, illusions and naivety
2.1. Questions of power
The myth of the "postmodernism"
The myth of "Europe, civilian power"
2.2. Questions of independence
The myth of American support to the strengthening of Europe
The myth of complementarity between Europe and America
The myth of a possible influence on Washington
2.3. Questions of Europe: the myth of "Europeanisation" as a miracle solution
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(Hajnalka Vincze, Europe vis-a-vis an unbalanced multipolar world, The Federalist Year LI, 2009, Single Issue, (based on Presentation at an International seminar hosted under the aegis of the Committee for a European Federal State, 7 March 2009, Strasbourg), 32,000 characters)
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