The European Union in a pincer between an 'extractive' and a 'dependency' superpower
| dc.contributor.author | BERTOLDI, Moreno | |
| dc.contributor.author | BUTI, Marco | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-09-10T07:22:18Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-09-10T07:22:18Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2025 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Faced with an “extractive” superpower (the United States) and a “dependency” superpower (China), which are fundamentally reshaping the world order, the European Union is caught in a pincer. To escape, it is called to respond by completing its institutional architecture, reforming its business model and equipping itself with hard power. In so doing, it has to tackle three binary choices: national versus shared sovereignty, export-led versus domestic growth, and single market integrity versus national industrial policies. The European Union remains an “incomplete” superpower. Whilst it cannot and should not aim at becoming a fully-fledged superpower, deeper integration is necessary to make the bloc more resilient and to play a constructive international role, more closely related to its potential political and economic weight. However, political feasibility is a major stumbling block to achieve these objectives. | |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1028-3625 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1814/93655 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | European University Institute | |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | EUI | |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | RSC | |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | Working Paper | |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | 2025/35 | |
| dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | |
| dc.rights.license | Attribution 4.0 International | en |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | |
| dc.subject | Superpower competition | |
| dc.subject | European integration | |
| dc.subject | Strategic autonomy | |
| dc.subject | Geopolitics | |
| dc.subject | Trade conflicts | |
| dc.title | The European Union in a pincer between an 'extractive' and a 'dependency' superpower | |
| dc.type | Working Paper | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
| person.identifier.other | 26641 | |
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