As we discuss the nuts and bolts of what a possible compromise settlement might look like, we also have a once in a lifetime opportunity to finally sort out the lingering ambiguity in Euro-Atlantic treaties. 1/
https://twitter.com/FPRI_Orbis/status/1504107340966121481
NATO & EU maintain they are open to any "European" state who wishes to join and can contribute. Back in the Cold War days, it was understood that there was an effective geopolitical border to Europe. The 1975 Helsinki conference offered a vision from Vancouver to Vladivostok. 2/
Differing conceptions: geographic Europe, cultural & political Europe-never sorted out-and in post Cold War conditions, countries were terrified of being defined as "out" of Europe & rendered ineligible for membership. 3/
Starting point: Europe has limits. The lost potential of the "Wider Europe" concept or the "common spaces" approach was to allow for gradual, inclusive shifts from a European core into Asia, the Middle East & North Africa. We need to recover that. 4/
If there is a silver lining to BREXIT, it would be to restart a process of ringing the EU core with a set of partners who are "associated with" that core but also then have non-Europe connectivities. Rethink the association with Turkey. Accelerate the TTIP process 5/
to be more a more inclusive trans-Atlantic trading framework. Kick the Mediterranean dialogues into higher gear. Connect Europe to the emerging #IndoAbrahamic bloc between Israel, the Gulf and India. 6/
The 1989-1991 cycle in world affairs is over. We've already been stumbling through the emergence of a new era. Time for us to be "present at the creation" of the structures that will take us through the 21st century. 7/ nationalinterest.org/feature/can-am…
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