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Europe’s position as the most important economic area in the world is gradually being challenged by China and other regional powers which have been growing faster than the EU in the last 20 years. An economic and political power shift is taking place. How can Europe best cope with this challenge?
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President of the German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA), Hamburg, and a professor at the Universities of Hamburg and Leipzig, Germany. The author wishes to express his thanks to Birte Pohl for her assistance in providing the detailed trade and investment statistics used in this paper.
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Kappel, R. The challenge to Europe: Regional powers and the shifting of the global order. Intereconomics 46, 275–286 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10272-011-0392-5
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10272-011-0392-5