tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8853357367776986982Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:04:13 +0000The notes of a fledgling geostrategist at the University of Cambridgehttp://www.globalpowereurope.eu/noreply@blogger.com (James Rogers)Blogger65125globalpowereuropehttp://feedburner.google.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8853357367776986982.post-4661328605161938894Thu, 20 Aug 2009 10:20:00 +00002009-08-23T17:50:26.900+01:00european geostrategySee European Geostrategy for three new articles:• Thinks tanks and European security strategy• Time for a European Union grand strategy• Russia-America relations: the European litmus test?• Please also sign up for email updates from European Geostrategy! http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/globalpowereurope/~3/3LADxNki_J4/latest-on-european-geostrategy.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (James Rogers)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/globalpowereurope/~4/3LADxNki_J4" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.globalpowereurope.eu/2009/08/latest-on-european-geostrategy.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8853357367776986982.post-3822448656467175260Wed, 12 Aug 2009 20:49:00 +00002009-08-12T21:59:54.698+01:00As any regular readers will know, I’ve been sharing my thoughts on European foreign policy over the past two years using this forum. Today, however, I decided to take up an offer to write for the new Ideas on Europe initiative—so from now on, my future thoughts will be found there. The address of my new weblog is: http://europeangeostrategy/ideasoneurope.euPlease do cross over and take a look! http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/globalpowereurope/~3/blZQGcMmw0g/emigrating.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (James Rogers)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/globalpowereurope/~4/blZQGcMmw0g" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.globalpowereurope.eu/2009/08/emigrating.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8853357367776986982.post-5575160412856419583Wed, 22 Jul 2009 00:14:00 +00002009-07-22T14:42:43.742+01:00european unionnavyunited kingdomroyal navyToday, the First Sea Lord, Admiral Jonathan Band, had published an article in The Guardian on the ongoing need for a powerful naval fleet. This comes at a time when ‘sea-blindedness’ has risen both in Britain and across much of the rest of the European Union—paradoxically during a time when Europeans are more dependent on the sea than ever before. So Admiral Band is to be congratulated; rarely inhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/globalpowereurope/~3/qTvJLZLH7ic/hats-off-to-first-sea-lord.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (James Rogers)6<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/globalpowereurope/~4/qTvJLZLH7ic" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.globalpowereurope.eu/2009/07/hats-off-to-first-sea-lord.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8853357367776986982.post-8305601264818806588Mon, 13 Jul 2009 13:50:00 +00002009-07-20T01:48:10.782+01:00european unioneuropeindiaeurasianavymaritime securitychinaunited statesLast Wednesday, I went to speak at a seminar on maritime security organised by the Institut des hautes études de défense national (French Institute for Higher Defence Studies or IHEDN) and the new Swedish Presidency of the European Union. I was invited to present my work on the renewed geopolitical competition between the Chinese, Indians, Americans, Japanese, Australians and South Koreans in thehttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/globalpowereurope/~3/CAJe6U-yzeQ/rise-of-new-old-threats.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (James Rogers)1<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/globalpowereurope/~4/CAJe6U-yzeQ" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.globalpowereurope.eu/2009/07/rise-of-new-old-threats.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8853357367776986982.post-516593487688637925Tue, 30 Jun 2009 23:57:00 +00002009-07-01T13:26:57.482+01:00european unionsecurity policyunited kingdomroyal navyaircraft carrierSo, yesterday, the Institute for Public Policy Research revealed their long-awaited report on the future of British security strategy. While I have not read the entire report, I have thoroughly reviewed the Executive Summary, which contains a ream of ‘recommendations’. I was expecting some innovative and forward-looking insights on the future of the world system and how the British government http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/globalpowereurope/~3/vkp-Dc-ekIU/recipe-for-national-suicide.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (James Rogers)7<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/globalpowereurope/~4/vkp-Dc-ekIU" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.globalpowereurope.eu/2009/07/recipe-for-national-suicide.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8853357367776986982.post-7313174999977804525Thu, 23 Apr 2009 01:05:00 +00002009-04-23T02:53:59.132+01:00european unionpowerforeign policyvaluesgeostrategydemocracyIn democratic societies, we often like to think that we use our power for a higher purpose—like making the world a better place. Indeed, this has been an overriding principle of foreign policy for many of the most powerful western societies since the early nineteenth century. Policies aimed at fighting piracy, ending slavery, frustrating the schemes of dictatorships, and supporting democratic http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/globalpowereurope/~3/Y5zVX81g-vo/power-and-values-in-european-foreign.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (James Rogers)7<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/globalpowereurope/~4/Y5zVX81g-vo" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.globalpowereurope.eu/2009/04/power-and-values-in-european-foreign.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8853357367776986982.post-6673651240009660458Tue, 07 Apr 2009 17:46:00 +00002009-04-09T04:57:37.391+01:00On Monday, 30th March, I found myself speaking at a workshop arranged by the European Parliament’s Sub-Committee on Security and Defence in Brussels. With my colleague, Luis Simón, I was giving a presentation to the Sub-Committee’s MEPs on ‘Geostrategy and the Future of European Security and Defence Policy’. We were focussing on the location and utility of the Member States’ overseas military http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/globalpowereurope/~3/9spxi9Ok5DM/addressing-european-parliament_07.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (James Rogers)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/globalpowereurope/~4/9spxi9Ok5DM" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.globalpowereurope.eu/2009/04/addressing-european-parliament_07.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8853357367776986982.post-2687943117062473446Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:49:00 +00002009-04-07T19:17:26.808+01:00european unioneuropean neighbourhoodgeopoliticsgrand areaeurasiageostrategyToday, the paper I worked on during my time at the European Union Institute for Security Studies in Paris was published. Entitled From Suez to Shanghai: the European Union and Eurasian maritime security, it provides an initial foray into the emerging geopolitical situation in the Eurasian coastal zone, and concentrates on the geostrategic activities of China, India, Japan, Russia, South Korea andhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/globalpowereurope/~3/3OTVu6ddm6g/from-suez-canal-to-city-of-shanghai.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (James Rogers)1<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/globalpowereurope/~4/3OTVu6ddm6g" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.globalpowereurope.eu/2009/03/from-suez-canal-to-city-of-shanghai.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8853357367776986982.post-1991066841106995687Wed, 21 Jan 2009 16:37:00 +00002009-01-22T07:57:31.347Zeuropean unionenergy securityukrainenuclear powergermanyrussiaIn this month’s edition of The World Today, James Sherr, the leading Russia expert in Chatham House, has an excellent article on the perilous state of European energy policy (or lack thereof). The title of his piece, ‘Final Warning’, could not be any clearer: not only has the latest Russia-Ukraine gas row revealed—at least to those with their eyes open—that European energy supplies from Russia http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/globalpowereurope/~3/4pCWzAATqhQ/gas-russia-and-european-union.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (James Rogers)7<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/globalpowereurope/~4/4pCWzAATqhQ" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.globalpowereurope.eu/2009/01/gas-russia-and-european-union.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8853357367776986982.post-5541162366393440066Tue, 13 Jan 2009 17:19:00 +00002009-01-16T00:01:08.958Zeuropean unionindiageopoliticsrimlandnavysouth koreageostrategychinajapanrussiaPlease click on the play button below to watch! And press the pause button for some of the longer blocks of text.• A version in ‘High Quality’ can be viewed on Youtube. This will make the text clearer. For any regular readers who have noticed my recent absence, I apologise. For most of Autumn 2008, I was given the opportunity to live and work in Paris. I was appointed as a Visiting Fellow at the http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/globalpowereurope/~3/5sbtvGyMh78/maritime-geopolitics-of-euraisa.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (James Rogers)4<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/globalpowereurope/~4/5sbtvGyMh78" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.globalpowereurope.eu/2009/01/maritime-geopolitics-of-euraisa.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8853357367776986982.post-3040100896677294073Wed, 29 Oct 2008 10:56:00 +00002008-10-29T14:22:13.666Zeuropean unionnavyunited kingdomjohn huttongermanyfranceaircraft carrierOver the weekend, the new British Defence Secretary, John Hutton, said in an interview in The Sunday Times that the time had come to consider the creation and mobilisation of a European army. He said the idea was simply ‘pragmatic’, and even went so far as to declare that while there were many anti-Europeans who opposed the idea in the United Kingdom, they were either ‘pathetic’ or at a loss withhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/globalpowereurope/~3/ASQf61Wbfqk/europeans-need-british-navy-not-german.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (James Rogers)10<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/globalpowereurope/~4/ASQf61Wbfqk" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.globalpowereurope.eu/2008/10/europeans-need-british-navy-not-german.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8853357367776986982.post-3029657632557196453Mon, 20 Oct 2008 14:36:00 +00002008-10-20T17:49:37.693+01:00european unionenergy securitynatonavyunited kingdomsomaliaLittle reported in the British media is the fact that the European Union is currently mobilising for a naval expedition in the Gulf of Aden. In the last few years, this region has suffered ever more from pirate activity, with significant infestations along Somalia’s eastern coast. But as a report by Chatham House recently indicated, the pirate attacks have moved onto a higher plane since 2007, http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/globalpowereurope/~3/9cqXvEhFcUw/guns-ready-fire.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (James Rogers)8<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/globalpowereurope/~4/9cqXvEhFcUw" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.globalpowereurope.eu/2008/10/guns-ready-fire.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8853357367776986982.post-6850388259358807019Wed, 13 Aug 2008 21:28:00 +00002008-08-19T01:53:57.866+01:00european enlargementeuropean neighbourhoodgeorge w. bushnicolas sarkozydavid milibandrussiaAfter five days of Russia’s war against Georgia, the dust may now be starting to settle. At this point in time, it is now clear that Georgia’s military operation in its renegade province of South Ossetia has not been successful. It now looks as if the Georgian President, Mikhail Saakashvili, was reckless in challenging the Russian garrison stationed in the province. His forces were either unable,http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/globalpowereurope/~3/F9CN9kk0bw8/britain-asserts-need-to-defend-new-map.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (James Rogers)10<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/globalpowereurope/~4/F9CN9kk0bw8" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.globalpowereurope.eu/2008/08/britain-asserts-need-to-defend-new-map.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8853357367776986982.post-8189227528873308486Fri, 08 Aug 2008 17:11:00 +00002008-08-11T00:52:10.360+01:00european unioneuropean neighbourhoodgeorgiarussiaeurosphereA military conflict has broken out in the European Neighbourhood, just across the Black Sea, on the European Union’s eastern frontier. The French Presidency of the Council of the European Union has issued a statement expressing its ‘grave concern’ over the situation, calling on the ‘exercise of the utmost restraint’ and for all parties to ‘immediately lower tensions and avoid any further http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/globalpowereurope/~3/8i3x6GjDeaY/georgia-next-yugoslavia.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (James Rogers)9<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/globalpowereurope/~4/8i3x6GjDeaY" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.globalpowereurope.eu/2008/08/georgia-next-yugoslavia.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8853357367776986982.post-9175724023802876298Sat, 28 Jun 2008 23:59:00 +00002008-06-29T02:13:08.806+01:00robert kaganeuropean security councileuropean unionglobal powerunited statesA couple of years ago, while I was the Director of the European Union research programme at The Henry Jackson Society, I wrote an article arguing that it was imperative that the European Union should become a ‘global power’, so that Europeans have the means to defend and extend their interests and values in the modern world. Robert Kagan, now thought to be the leading foreign policy advisor to http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/globalpowereurope/~3/Ra39T-uuy84/why-both-europeans-and-americans-need.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (James Rogers)11<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/globalpowereurope/~4/Ra39T-uuy84" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.globalpowereurope.eu/2008/06/why-both-europeans-and-americans-need.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8853357367776986982.post-7800428248380191564Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:11:00 +00002008-10-23T15:47:03.808+01:00marianneeuropean unionenergy securitysecurity policynicolas sarkozydefence-industrial basefranceGuest article by Luis Simón NavarroOn Tuesday morning, President Nicolas Sarkozy presented in Paris a new strategy of security and defence for the next fifteen years, before an audience of some 3500 people, including military officials, police officers, diplomats and other civil servants, experts and journalists. The publication of France’s Livre Blanc pour la défense et la sécurité nationale http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/globalpowereurope/~3/0UShjmZ0Il8/frances-strategic-defence-review.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (James Rogers)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/globalpowereurope/~4/0UShjmZ0Il8" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.globalpowereurope.eu/2008/06/frances-strategic-defence-review.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8853357367776986982.post-2583317583715241802Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:17:00 +00002008-06-16T20:46:59.298+01:00european unionunited kingdomreform treatyhistorygordon brownirelandAnti-Europeanism in the United States, like anti-Americanism in Europe, has a rich history. But whereas European anti-Americanism seems motivated, paradoxically, by a lurid self-loathing, perhaps American disdain for the ‘Old World’ is motivated by something different. Americans have long predicted the eclipse of Europeans, often relishing the prospect. In 1816, for example, Thomas Jefferson, onehttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/globalpowereurope/~3/iR6yzt6cu_k/last-days-of-europe.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (James Rogers)38<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/globalpowereurope/~4/iR6yzt6cu_k" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.globalpowereurope.eu/2008/06/last-days-of-europe.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8853357367776986982.post-5832661914306180345Wed, 28 May 2008 01:18:00 +00002008-05-28T03:33:02.952+01:00global warmingeuropean unionclimate changeglobal powerfinancereform treatyirelandeconomyThe latest economic statistics from the International Monetary Fund show that European financial and economic dominance is losing ground to China, Russia, India and the United States. A quick glance at the graph, below, should remind us that the individual European Union Member States—even the ‘big four’ like Germany, Britain, France and Italy—are already beginning to look small in comparison to http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/globalpowereurope/~3/Ukpb93bAnwE/ireland-dont-turn-europeans-into.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (James Rogers)4<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/globalpowereurope/~4/Ukpb93bAnwE" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.globalpowereurope.eu/2008/05/ireland-dont-turn-europeans-into.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8853357367776986982.post-9083554108540214409Fri, 16 May 2008 22:35:00 +00002008-05-19T20:22:33.184+01:00energy securityeuropean defence agencymilitary powersecurity policyforeign policygermanyA week ago the Christian Democratic Union and the Christian Social Union (the German conservatives) revealed their first major attempt at compiling a security strategy for the Federal Republic of Germany. Had a major political grouping in Britain or France created such a document, the only interest among the public and concerned parties would likely have been its content; both Member States, http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/globalpowereurope/~3/sZ27ozNgToQ/great-german-strategic-awakening.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (James Rogers)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/globalpowereurope/~4/sZ27ozNgToQ" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.globalpowereurope.eu/2008/05/great-german-strategic-awakening.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8853357367776986982.post-3522546067770511409Thu, 15 May 2008 01:20:00 +00002008-05-15T15:16:22.268+01:00european enlargementmanifest destinyeuropean unioneuropean neighbourhoodukraineorange revolutionromano prodifranceUkraine is one of the largest and most populous countries on the fringes of the European Union. Although with an area comparable to France, and a population of just under fifty million, Ukraine has nevertheless suffered a cruel fate during much of the previous century. Long part of the Russian empire, the nation was ruled firmly from Moscow, and suffered the vices of dictatorship, Russification http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/globalpowereurope/~3/SnbD8DQUqfw/ukraine-lynchpin-in-europes-manifest.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (James Rogers)1<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/globalpowereurope/~4/SnbD8DQUqfw" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.globalpowereurope.eu/2008/05/ukraine-lynchpin-in-europes-manifest.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8853357367776986982.post-2376353562549207835Sat, 10 May 2008 21:39:00 +00002008-05-12T22:48:50.255+01:00robert kaganneoconservativeseuropean unionfrancis fukuyamarobert cooperhistoryIn mid-1989, Francis Fukuyama predicted the collapse of the Soviet empire and the fall of the Berlin Wall in his article ‘The End of History?’. But more than that, this (then) neoconservative intellectual claimed that the ideological defeat of Soviet communism—represented by Mikhail Gorbachev’s restructuring under perestroika and glasnost—meant that liberal democracy, as a form of political http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/globalpowereurope/~3/ZDVcd-gwqc0/return-of-history.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (James Rogers)4<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/globalpowereurope/~4/ZDVcd-gwqc0" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.globalpowereurope.eu/2008/05/return-of-history.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8853357367776986982.post-3109947598421387811Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:47:00 +00002008-03-06T00:47:01.453Zeuropean enlargementeuropean unioneuropean neighbourhoodukraineturkeymoldovanicolas sarkozyeuropean commonwealthrussiaeurosphereeuropean commissionOver the past fifty years, the European Union has expanded dramatically. From a motley collection of war-ravaged countries, the Union now covers much of our continent, from the icy wastes of northern Finland to the southern reaches of Greece and Spain, from the wind-swept coasts of the British Isles, to the eastern hinterlands of the former Soviet empire. Not since Imperial Rome has Europe been http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/globalpowereurope/~3/YJtztMAeEcQ/towards-greater-europe.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (James Rogers)8<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/globalpowereurope/~4/YJtztMAeEcQ" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.globalpowereurope.eu/2008/03/towards-greater-europe.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8853357367776986982.post-5840098346852995169Mon, 03 Mar 2008 20:03:00 +00002008-03-04T22:57:35.715Zeurophobeseuropean unionjavier solanasecurity policyforeign policyunited kingdomOn Thursday, Javier Solana, the European Union’s foreign policy supremo, gave a speech at St. Antony’s College at the University of Oxford. His lecture was given under the mantel of the Cyril Foster Fund, established by—unsurprisingly—Cyril Foster, a confectioner, who left his entire estate to the university so that it might be used to promote peace. And that the speech was given by Dr. Solana http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/globalpowereurope/~3/BqjFf_USBLc/javier-solanas-wise-words.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (James Rogers)6<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/globalpowereurope/~4/BqjFf_USBLc" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.globalpowereurope.eu/2008/03/javier-solanas-wise-words.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8853357367776986982.post-675560146429971694Mon, 18 Feb 2008 19:40:00 +00002008-02-18T20:39:29.552Zeuropean security councileuropean unionnatoatlantic allianceunited statesToday, I had published in the public policy journal Europe’s World an article calling for a strong European Union in a renewed Atlantic Alliance. Co-authored with Alex Petersen, a colleague of mine who is an adjunct fellow at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies in Washington D.C., our aim was to inject what we hoped would be some fresh thinking on what can often become a boring http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/globalpowereurope/~3/m5aUQENt37k/time-for-new-atlantic-pact.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (James Rogers)4<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/globalpowereurope/~4/m5aUQENt37k" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.globalpowereurope.eu/2008/02/time-for-new-atlantic-pact.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8853357367776986982.post-7312582942016403711Sat, 16 Feb 2008 19:20:00 +00002008-02-18T11:03:56.280Zeuropean unionpresidentjean-claude junckernicolas sarkozytony blairwolfgang schüsselgordon brownromano prodiunited statesjohn mccainThe presidential race in the United States has been well underway for quite some time. Everyone has heard of the frontrunners John McCain, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, and even those who have dropped out like Rudolph Giuliani. Less well known though is the fact that the position of ‘President of Europe’ is also up for grabs from 2009—or as soon as the Treaty of Lisbon is ratified and comes http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/globalpowereurope/~3/D0rS8OGV_Rc/new-presidents-for-europe-and-america.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (James Rogers)19<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/globalpowereurope/~4/D0rS8OGV_Rc" height="1" width="1"/>http://www.globalpowereurope.eu/2008/02/new-presidents-for-europe-and-america.html