Fear and Uncertainty in Europe

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Russia’s intervention in the Ukraine, Donald Trump’s presidency and instability in the Middle East are just a few of the factors that have brought an end to the immediate post-Cold War belief that a new international order was emerging: one where fear and uncertainty gave way to a thick normative and institutional architecture that diminished the importance of material power. This has raised questions about the instruments we use to understand order in Europe and in international relations. The chapters in this book aim to assess whether foreign policy actors in Europe understand the international system and behave as realists. They ask what drives their behaviour, how they construct material capabilities and to what extent they see material power as the means to ensure survival. They contribute to a critical assessment of realism as a way to understand both Europe’s current predicament and the contemporary international system. Front Matter ....Pages i-xii Introduction (Roberto Belloni, Vincent Della Sala)....Pages 1-10 Front Matter ....Pages 11-11 What Do We Mean by Realism? And How—And What—Does Realism Explain? (Jack Donnelly)....Pages 13-33 Nationalism vs. Internationalism: Fears, Uncertainties and Geopolitics in Europe (Paul Viotti)....Pages 35-52 Europe May Be Done with Power, but Power Is Not Done with Europe: Europe During an Era of American Unipolarity and of Relative Decline (Paul Van Hooft, Annette Freyberg-Inan)....Pages 53-81 Front Matter ....Pages 83-83 Germany’s Growing Power in EUrope: From Multilateral Collectivism Towards Re-Nationalization and Destabilization? (Alexander Reichwein)....Pages 85-108 When Power Meets Perception: France’s Fight Against Terrorism in the Sahara-Sahel (Benedikt Erforth)....Pages 109-129 Unheard Voices: International Relations Theory and Italian Defence Policy (Fabrizio Coticchia)....Pages 131-150 Front Matter ....Pages 151-151 From Ontological Insecurity to Counter-Hegemony: Russia’s Post-Soviet Engagement with Geopolitics and Eurasianism (Natalia Morozova)....Pages 153-176 Man vs. the System: Turkish Foreign Policy After the Arab Uprisings (Özgür Özdamar, Balkan Devlen)....Pages 177-195 British Foreign Policy in the Context of Brexit: Realism or Irrationality? (Pauline Schnapper)....Pages 197-214 Front Matter ....Pages 215-215 As NATO Looks East, Will It Stumble in the South? The Case of Protection of Civilians Policy (Sten Rynning)....Pages 217-239 Realism in the EU: Can a Trans-national Actor Be Strategic? (Vincent Della Sala, Roberto Belloni)....Pages 241-263 Realism, Neocolonialism and European Military Intervention in Africa (Catherine Gegout)....Pages 265-288 Back Matter ....Pages 289-292