Europe’s Need for a New Global Strategy

Resumo

During 2013 member states, analysts and decision makers considered that December’s European Council should give the incentive to a common evaluation, regarding the global environment and the impact of future challenges claiming the formulation of a new global strategy. The new global power distribution, with the American shift to Asia, the failure of recent interventions in the wider Middle East and the financial crisis, led Europe to inwardness. In Europe’s impoverish and unstable closer neighborhood, the EU lost the ability to deal with the re-emergent Westphalian world. The use of soft power and economical aid are of little effectiveness towards international partners poorly socialized with the practice of cosmopolitan responsibility. Nevertheless, the European tendency to draw on consensus, compromise and ability to set the international agenda seem to adapt well to the transition to new hegemonies and power distribution. This will involve a new form of thinking the world strategically and to find ways to project values and reassess the future role of the armed forces.