A Farewell to Foreign Policy Relevance
Posted by:
Jan Techau
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
http://carnegieeurope.eu/strategiceurope/?fa=49408
"I am starting to wonder whether India will have replaced Europe as
the U.S.'s closest partner by 2050." I received this tweet halfway into
the second day of this year's
Riga Conference,
an annual exercise in mental stock-taking for the transatlantic
community in Latvia's beautiful capital city. The tweep sending this
message was
Hans Kundnani (
@hanskundnani),
the ECFR's razor-sharp observer of European and Security affairs. He
sits on the other side of the large conference room in Blackhead's
House, a splendidly re-built Hanseatic brick gem in Riga's old city. My
heart sinks. The evening before, we had agonized over dinner about the
lack of creative thinking in Europe on foreign affairs, and now we
semi-publicly agonize over the pitiful spectacle that is unfolding
before our eyes. For what we see and hear is part of Europe's farewell
to foreign policy relevance.
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