Will the EU’s Global Strategy meet the foreign policy challenges of the future?

Federica Mogherini, the EU’s High Representative, is currently preparing a Global Strategy for foreign and security policy, which is due for completion in June 2016. Richard Youngs writes that while the project is welcome, there is a danger of producing a review that lacks the detail or prescience required to deal with the future challenges the EU will face over the next decade.

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ESO: Background information: The Five Building Blocks of EU Foreign Policy http://www.europeansources.info/record/the-five-building-blocks-of-eu-foreign-policy/

EU: EEAS: The European Union in a changing global environment. A more connected, contested and complex world http://eeas.europa.eu/docs/strategic_review/eu-strategic-review_strategic_review_en.pdf

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