Justin Vaïsse is the director of policy planning at the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs. This commentary does not necessarily reflect the official position of France.
The Biden Administration’s National Security Strategy depicts a world defined by two countervailing trends: a proliferation of global problems that demand collective action and a resurgence of geopolitical rivalry that complicates that very cooperation.
With a new EU foreign policy high representative coming into office, it is high time for the EU to become the strategic actor it has set out to be.
European foreign policy is not jeopardized by the activism of EU member states. The real dangers are a lack of leadership and a lack of political momentum.