title: The European Union in an illiberal world
abstract: The European Union (EU) has in many ways been the most thorough creation of the international liberal order, and its upending – especially by the EU's historical ally the US – poses a multi-dimensional challenge to the Union. The immediate security and trade threats are obvious enough. But more challenging still are the rise of nationalism and great power geopolitics, historical forces which the whole European project has been designed to overcome. Moreover, the rise of illiberalism across the g
journal: Homo Politicus (Academy of Humanities and Economics in Lodz)