The Return Of Geopolitics
Journal: Oxford University Press eBooks
Year: 2022

Abstract The focus of this chapter is on EU–Russia relations, particularly against the background of the 2014 Russian annexation of Crimea. These relations have been shaped by the tension between the EU’s ambition to become a major global player and the reality of its limited power. Europe's challenges are illuminated through some of Carl Schmitt’s basic concepts, such as geopolitics. In response to an increasingly revanchist and, in many ways, "Schmittian" Russia, the European Union would do we