The Union Formerly Known as Europe

What we think of as “Europe” doesn’t really exist at the level of world politics in 2019. Is the European Union a failed experiment?

What a difference a year makes. President Donald Trump poses for a photo with then European Union leaders, President Jean-Claude Juncker and European Council President Donald Tusk, Thursday, May 25, 2017, at the European Union Headquarters in Brussels, prior to the start of their bilateral meeting. (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead)

“Not only is American primacy far less durable than it appears, but it is already beginning to diminish. And the rising challenger is not China or the Islamic world but the European Union, an emerging polity that is in the process of marshaling the impressive resources and…