PERSPECTIVE ALE GEOPOLITICII UNIUNII EUROPENE
GEOPOLITICAL PERSPECTIVES OF EUROPEAN UNION

Summary/Abstract: For 5.000 years, since the first states were created in what is now southern Iraq, governments have been using violence to create political unity and then using politics (and, when necessary, more violence) to create economic and cultural unity everywhere that their power reached. From 3.000 B.C. through the late 1940s, it is hard to find a single example of a state formed in any other way. Since the late 1940s, though, Western Europeans have been turning history’s most successful formula on its head. The European Union has arguably been the most extraordinary experiment in the history of political institutions, but the reason its accomplishments seemed so boring was that dullness was the bloc’s whole point. In committee meeting after the committee meeting, unsung bureaucratic heroes spun of web of rules and regulations that bound the Continent’s formerly sovereign states into an economic and cultural unit and then began using economics and culture to create a political unit. However, any empire along history has experienced rapid growth and prosperity and then a period of decline. The EU currently faces elements that can lead to the idea of nearterm decline. If the idea of the European bloc will survive or not this formula will mainly depend of politicians and their decisions.

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