Ten Foreign Policy Trends for 2017

The authors list ten trends (plus one bonus) that they argue will define European foreign policy in 2017:

+ Elections dominate European foreign policy
+ Russia’s triumphant return to the West
+ Strange bedfellows defend the world order
+ The Syrian Civil War fails to end
+ The EU-Turkey refugee deal holds
+ The US abandons the Iran deal while the EU struggles to maintain it
+ Brexit negotiations go nowhere
+ The marginalisation of the EU Periphery
+ Europe finally gets serious about defence
+ The end of the two state solution
+ Bonus Trend: Europe gains leverage from Trump’s European business interests

ESO: Background information: Thirteen trends for 2016 http://www.europeansources.info/record/thirteen-trends-for-2016/

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