LEADER 03478nam 2200577 450 001 9910796584603321 005 20220202110249.0 010 $a1-5017-1668-9 024 7 $a10.7591/9781501716683 035 $a(CKB)3840000000334843 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse65600 035 $a(DLC) 2017042208 035 $a(DE-B1597)496435 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781501716683 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4987898 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11498741 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4987898 035 $a(OCoLC)1020029574 035 $a(EXLCZ)993840000000334843 100 $a20180206h20172017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aContinent by default $ethe European Union and the demise of regional order 210 1$aIthaca, New York ;$aLondon, [England] $cCornell University Press$d2017 215 $a1 online resource (281 pages) $cillustrations 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tAbbreviations --$tIntroduction --$t1. In The Beginning Was Enlargement --$t2. The Limits Of Enlargement --$t3. Peace, War, And Confetti --$t4. Boundaries and Borderlands --$t5. A Crisis In The Making? --$t6. Competitive Decadence? --$tConclusion --$tAcknowledgments --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aIn Continent by Default, Anne Marie Le Gloannec, a distinguished analyst of contemporary Europe, considers the European Union as a geopolitical project. This book offers a comprehensive narrative of how the European Union came to organize the continent, first by default through enlargement and in a more proactive, innovative, but not always successful way. The EU was not conceived as a foreign-policy actor, she says, and the Union was an innocent on questions of geopolitics. For readers who may wonder how the EU arrived at Brexit, the invasion of Ukraine, and the refugee crisis, Le Gloannec ties events to the EU's long-term failure to think in politically strategic terms. Le Gloannec takes readers through the process by which, under the security umbrella of the United States, the European Commission engineered a new way for states and societies to interact. Continent by Default shows the Commission domesticated international relations and promoted peace by including new members-enlargement was the most significant tool the EU used from its inception to organize the continent, but the EU also tied itself to its regional neighbors through various programs that too often gave those neighbors the advantage. As Continent by Default makes clear, the EU cannot devise strategy because foreign policy remains the privilege of national governments. It is a geopolitical actor without geopolitical means. 606 $aEuropean cooperation$2FBC 606 $aEurope$xForeign relations 606 $aEU$2FBC 606 $aGeopolitik$2FBC 607 $aEurope$xForeign relations 615 7$aEuropean cooperation. 615 0$aEurope$xForeign relations. 615 7$aEU 615 7$aGeopolitik 676 $a341.242/2 686 $a339$2z 700 $aLe Gloannec$b Anne Marie, $4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0569861 701 $aGloannec$b Anne-Marie Le$01134614 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910796584603321 996 $aContinent by default$93814082 997 $aUNINA