“Why Europe still lives in a utopia of security”

Until recent changes, military spending in most European Union countries were on a long, sharp and downward trend since the late 1980s, with an average of 1.3% of GDP between 2014 and 2018. As a result of these reduced defensive expenditure, their external commitments and ambitions are not supported by Europe’s According to Professor and Associate at Stanford University Institute, Jakub Grygiel, in utopian perceptions of both international relations and power – which is considered as an infinite pool of Europe’s own attractiveness and not as the limited and consumable resource. This gap, Grygiel writes in his article entitled “Europe Still Lives in a Security Utopia”, has two implications for the geopolitical fortunes of Epirus. First, it creates deep internal faults. Many of Europe’s current divisions in terms of […]
Source: News Beast

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