No world order: Europe needs more radical thinking for the Trump era

By Richard Youngs, Professor of International and European Politics, University of Warwick

There is general agreement that the US’s geopolitical shock therapy is a sign of a new world order. While European powers nominally recognise this, their policies are not, in practice, tailored towards such a change.

The EU and other European governments are, understandably, focused on very immediate matters – talks on Ukraine, defence budgets, rebutting big US tech firms. But they also need to be guided by a clearer vision of the broader international order that flows from this inflection point.

Even though the world has already changed profoundly over the last decade,…

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