The Unbearable Lightness of Power: Europe, Geo-Politics and the War in Ukraine
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- čas přidán 26. 06. 2024
- Time to Decide Europe Summit 2023 - Session 1
Russia’s full-scale invasion of a sovereign European country Ukraine has caused a geopolitical earthquake, forcing the European Union to profoundly reassess its overall geopolitical posture and strategy. Today Europe is painfully aware of its security dependence of the United States and the war has also widened the gap between the West and the Rest.
All major questions now stand open: Should the EU decouple from the United States’ geopolitical agenda, as French President Macron advocated after his visit to China? If so, at what cost, and could this decoupling happen without the tearing apart of the Union? Are Europeans ready to pay for their defense? And if not what does strategic autonomy mean?
How Europe chooses to answer will determine the Union’s global standing as we emerge from this crisis. The time to decide is now.
Kick Off Speakers:
Janka Oertel, Director of the Asia Programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations
Soli Özel, Senior Lecturer at Istanbul Kadir Has University
Discussion with contributions from the full panel
SPEAKERS AND PANEL MEMBERS
Anthony Barnett, Writer, campaigner and co-founder of openDemocracy
Milica Delević, Director for Competitiveness, Governance and Political Affairs at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
Kirsten Dunlop, Chief Executive Officer at Climate-KIC
Taras Fedirko, Lecturer in Organised Crime and Corruption at the University of Glasgow
Gerald Knaus, Chairman of the European Stability Initiative (ESI)
Ivan Krastev, Permanent Fellow at the IWM
Jan-Werner Müller, Roger Williams Straus Professor of Social Sciences at Princeton University
Janka Oertel, Director of the Asia Programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations
Soli Özel, Senior Lecturer at Istanbul Kadir Has University
Katarzyna Pełczyńska-Nałęcz, Director of the Institute Strategie 2050
Kim Lane Scheppele, Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Sociology and International Affairs at Princeton University
Mary B. Warlick, Deputy Executive Director International Energy Agency
Guntram Wolff, CEO of the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP)
Timecodes:
00:00 Opening Speeches Boris Marte and Ivan Vejvoda
08:26 Opening Speech by Alexander Schallenberg
22:55 Opening Speech by Frans Timmermans
27:38 Introducing Speakers
45:40 Keynote Speech by Soli Özel
55:38 Keynote Speech by Janka Oertel
1:02:30 Beginning of the discussion
1:03:10 Ivan Krastev
1:07:25 Guntram Wolf
1:11:20 Kim Lane Scheppele
1:15:40 Gerald Knaus
1:21:25 Kirsten Dunlop
1:24:05 Milica Delević
1:27:49 Anthony Barnett
1:32:33 Taras Fedirko
1:34:53 Katarzyna Pełczyńska-Nałęcz
1:29:05 Ivan Krastev
1:41:47 Jan-Werner Müller
1:42:53 Guntram Wolf
1:44:42 Kim Lane Scheppele
1:47:30 Gerald Knaus
1:49:50 Q&A
1:59:00 Conclusions by Soli Özel
It was an interesting discussion. However, armies always rampage through Europe every 80-100 years, that usually involve Russia, so what is new? This may be a scarier iteration in the atomic age, but each time Europe has reconstructed itself and comeback. And possibly in the next iteration of Europe, a "buffer zone" or series of "buffer states" is created between Russia and Europe, that is strictly adhered to by both sides. Otherwise, if the EU insists on expansion and Russia insists on expansion, there will eventually be another conflict. That might break the cycle?
All impressive, but it's bitter that the remaining impression is one of having to square multiple circles in the future.
Such a important forum to mostly echo CNN?...one or two wise voices, though.
Rubbish just Russia bashing. If you lie cheat and steal from someone and they come to your home you have no right but to apologise and return what you have stolen
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Great Opening Speech by the Austrian Foreign Minister .. Now is the Time to Decide ..💙💛🔱🔥
Shocking, to the anglosaxon sphere, who colonized the world much more brutally for 300 years
Not as brutally as Germany. they get the crown. My families lived under both British occupation and German occupation.
we are talking occupation in Africa I presume? I happen to think that the nazi occupation is not representative for the germans. Extremely brutal yes, but less than 10 years, whilst the anglosaxon occupations measures centuries@@semsemeini7905
If want the cycle of history to truly change than you need honest conversations like these involving all or as many of the parties rather than relying on one liners with no context while attacking the ones who are choosing to use discussion rather than violence.
Funny, at first I thought they were discussing Palestine. Oh never mind.