Global Power Transition and the Future of the European Union

This book is about the future of the European Union inthe light of global power transition taking place in the 21^st Century and against the backdrop of the multiple challenges the project is facing. It demonstrates how the future of the European Union rests on a delicate balance between policy challenge, member states’ interests, and convergence or divergence of societal values across its peoples and shows how global power transition is affecting the EU’s position as a global actor.

It examines factors behind the decline of the EU relative to the rise of China and India in the global hierarchy and what policy options are available for EU leaders to implement in order to compete with China, India, and the United State. It analyses key policy challenges EU faces in its quest for "ever deeper union" and identifies significant factors (i.e., power relations, economic relations, emergent social values across the EU) that can explain likelihood of further integration or conflict between EU member states.

This text will be essential reading to scholars, students and practitioners interested in European Union politics and IR Theory and more broadly to International Relations, Security studies and Comparative politics

Birol Yesilada is Professor of Political Science and International Studies, Portland State University, USA.

Jacek Krugler is Elisabeth Helm Rosecrans Professor of World Politics and Political Economy, Claremont Graduate University, USA.

Gaspare M. Genna is Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, The University of Texas at El Paso, USA.

Osman Goktug Tanrikulu is a PhD student at Portland State University, USA.