Governing the EU in an Age of Division

Dalibor Rohac, Senior Fellow, Foreign and Defense Policy, American Enterprise Institute, US

• Contents: Preface 1. A glass half full or half empty? 2. The light that did not fail 3. The enlargement hangovers 4. What is European integration for? 5. Out of the Euro trap 6. Shared challenges, divergent interests, decentralized solutions 7. The superpower that wasn’t References Index

‘I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in the fate of the European Union or generally how to govern in an age of division. Dalibor Rohac reminds us that the sovereign borders across Europe may be faint, but they are still very real. Ignore them at your peril. He also reminds us that the original plan for the EU—a single market cooperating on foreign defense policy and trade—was a good one. The EU should stick with the original plan. Some of his messages are subtle and yet also extraordinarily important in today’s age of division. The book crystallizes the challenges in governing the EU. Given Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, geopolitical tensions in the Taiwan Strait, global trade tensions and the weakening of our international institutions, this book is more important than ever. To survive this age of division, leaders across the EU may have to readjust their expectations for their great union, or else risk losing it.’