Enhancing European Power

Terry McCarthy

Global Policy, 2020, vol. 11, issue 3, 388-390

Abstract: Why does Europe – or anyone for that matter – want to increase its power? To get more resources? Increase its security? Enhance its global prestige? Protect itself from unforeseeable risks that could completely change the status quo? All of the above? The US seeks to preserve its power and insulate itself from risks by supporting a strong and open economy, by maintaining an overpowering military capability, by promoting cutting‐edge technology and by underwriting a democratic society that can self‐renew by remaining open to immigrants (notwithstanding the policies of the current administration). China has been using its exponential economic growth and single party control of power to oversee an expansion in its military and technological power, simultaneously mobilizing a vast resource of labor by means of a population transfer from the countryside to cities on a scale that is larger than the world has ever seen.

Date: 2020
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-5899.12813

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:bla:glopol:v:11:y:2020:i:3:p:388-390

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.blackwell ... bs.asp?ref=1758-5880

Access Statistics for this article

Global Policy is currently edited by David Held, Patrick Dunleavy and Eva-Maria Nag

More articles in Global Policy from London School of Economics and Political Science Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Wiley Content Delivery ().