Advancing a geopolitical Europe: the new EU leadership and the Iranian conundrum
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F26482789%3A_____%2F25%3A10152764" target="_blank" >RIV/26482789:_____/25:10152764 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://academic.oup.com/ia/advance-article/doi/10.1093/ia/iiae284/8004977" target="_blank" >https://academic.oup.com/ia/advance-article/doi/10.1093/ia/iiae284/8004977</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiae284" target="_blank" >10.1093/ia/iiae284</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Advancing a geopolitical Europe: the new EU leadership and the Iranian conundrum
Original language description
Since 2019 European leaders have emphasized the necessity for the European Union to proactively project power and embrace its geopolitical responsibilities. Although leaders have developed the concept of a 'geopolitical EU' as a new discourse, it remains largely unimplemented.Following the June 2024 elections to the European Parliament, a new EU leadership has taken shape amid escalating geopolitical risks that go beyond Russia's war in Ukraine. This development underscores the urgency of advancing a more robust geopolitical EU. The growing strategic power of Iran, which defines itself as a determined revisionist actor, is perceived as a critical challenge to Europe.This policy paper argues that the EU's current Iran policy is misaligned with its geopolitical ambitions, depicting Iran-EU relations as a geopolitical contestation between a defender and a challenger of the existing international order. In this context, the perspective of a geopolitical EU would create a foundation for the new EU leadership to formulate its foreign policy towards Iran.The EU should enhance institutional and policy coordination to elevate Iran's significance on its geopolitical agenda, and the bloc's new leadership needs to develop a cohesive geopolitical mindset within the EU's decision-making framework. The President of the European Commission should lead efforts to foster a unified approach, while the High Representative should build consensus among member states, aligning with the established geopolitical mindset to engage with Iran.Eventually, the new EU leadership needs to define clear geopolitical objectives and establish effective enforcement mechanisms through its diplomatic, political and economic assets.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50601 - Political science
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA24-10160S" target="_blank" >GA24-10160S: Twenty-Five Years of EU Counterterrorism Policy: New Challenges, Old Problems?</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
International Affairs
ISSN
0020-5850
e-ISSN
1468-2346
Volume of the periodical
101
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
11
Pages from-to
665-675
UT code for WoS article
001416805800001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-86000598237