Simulacra Machine in Overdrive: Europe in Flux
Essay in TI Observer, June 2024
The European Union (EU) and Europe more broadly are doubtless in a moment of transitional flux. The longstanding and bloody conflict in Ukraine exemplifies a political set-up that has, in fact, failed to achieve a meaningful and stable post-Soviet settlement. The 30 years of Western dominion since the dissolution of the Soviet Union – the unipolar moment dominated by the US and its collective Western allies – did not deliver "perpetual peace." Rather, as we can see today, the accumulated result of the last three decades of practice has seen the EU reach, if not a precipice, a fork in the road.
👉🏼 The full essay can be accessed at the June 2024 issue of TI Observer here. 👈🏼
TI Observer is the monthly publication of Taihe Institute, a global non-government think tank based in Beijing, with affiliates and researchers across the globe.
