Chapter 1. By Way of Introduction: The EU’s Geopolitics: Where Ambition Exceeds Ability -- Part I: Puzzle Pieces -- Chapter 2. Can the EEAS Deliver Diplomacy for the Era of Grey Zones and Intensified Geopolitical Competition? -- Chapter 3. European Defence: Developments, Challenges and Gaps in Institutions, Instruments, and Strategies -- Chapter 4. Geopolitical Enlargement -- Chapter 5. EU Trade Policy in a Geopolitical Age -- Chapter 6. Squaring the Circle? The EU’s Energy Dilemma -- Part II: The Big Issues -- Chapter 7. Russian Geopolitics and the Russian-Ukrainian War: Lessons for the EU -- Chapter 8. China: Systemic Rival or Selective Partner? Prospects and Challenges -- Chapter 9. The Transatlantic Relationship -- Chapter 10. The Geopolitics of Global Transportation in the Twenty-first Century -- Part III: Making Partners -- Chapter 11. The European Union and Turkey – a Relationship of Frenemies -- Chapter 12. Geopolitics in Central Asia: the European Union Participating in a New Great Game Over Land-locked Countries? -- Chapter 13. Navigating Norms and Pragmatism in EU-India Relations -- Chapter 14. The European Union’s Strategy Toward the Indo-pacific -- Chapter 15. The EU, Sub-saharan Africa, and South America: What Role for Geo-strategic Partnerships? -- Chapter 16. How Relevant Are Continued Ties With Canada?.

The book deals with the urgent need for the EU to position itself globally in the wake of Brexit, a rapidly worsening climate crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic, an aggressive Russia, and an ever more assertive China. After 60 years of intensive navel gazing that focused on institutional design more than world politics, the EU is now forced to defend its liberal democratic values, which have come under attack from inside and outside the European integration project. Moreover, Realpolitik is back on the agenda. Europe’s content negligence of defense matters in the past few decades has been revealed by Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine. The Editors Prof. Dr. Mathias Jopp is a former Director of the Institute for European Politics (IEP) in Berlin (Germany). Prof. Dr. Johannes Pollak is the Rector and a Professor of Political Science at Webster Vienna Private University (Austria) and Chairman of the Executive Board, Institute for European Politics (IEP) in Berlin (Germany). .