EDITORIAL: THE EU – KANTIAN PARADISE LOST
EDITORIAL: THE EU – KANTIAN PARADISE LOST
Author(s): Anis H. BajrektarevićSubject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Addleton Academic Publishers
Keywords: European Union; United States; Russia; equilibrium; geopolitics; Kant; Hobbes
Summary/Abstract: Due to Hobbesian challenges, the “innocence of the Kantian EUparadise” might get lost. Author claims that the inner unionistic equilibrium will be maintained only if the Atlantic-Central Europe skillfully calibrates and balances its own equidistance from both assertive Russia and the omnipresent US. Any alternative to the EU at present is a grand accommodation of either France or Germany with Russia. This means a return to Europe of the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries – namely, direct confrontations over the Continent’s core sectors, perpetual animosities wars and destructions. The EU should recall that both biology and geopolitics share one basic rule: comply or die.
Journal: Geopolitics, History, and International Relations
- Issue Year: 7/2015
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 7-10
- Page Count: 4
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