Comment enrayer la démilitarisation de l'Europe ?

How to stop tHe demilitarisation of europe nick witney poliCY BriefsummarY Discounting threats of armed attack and disillusioned with liberal interventionism, Europeans are shrinking their militaries and banking on “soft” power. But this betrays a failure... More

How to stop tHe demilitarisation of europe nick witney poliCY BriefsummarY Discounting threats of armed attack and disillusioned with liberal interventionism, Europeans are shrinking their militaries and banking on “soft” power. But this betrays a failure to understand the nature of the new, multiplayer global environment that will determine Europe’s future security and prosperity. The value of Europe’s armed forces is less in countering specific “threats” than as necessary instruments of power and influence in a rapidly changing world, where militaries still matter. Unless it gets over its discomfort with hard power, Europe’s half-hearted efforts to improve the efficiency of its defence spending will continue to fail. This Policy Brief argues that Europeans now need to reassess their strategic environment, reconsider the role that hard power should play in it and relaunch their efforts to combine their defence efforts and resources. The Weimar Triangle–Germany,FranceandPoland–sho Less