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81 China Int'l Stud. 139 (2020)
'A Sovereign Europe': Transforming the European Union to Hard Power?

handle is hein.journals/chintersd81 and id is 139 raw text is: A Sovereign Europe: Transforming the European Union to Hard Power? Jin Ling P rofound changes unseen in a century, especially the transformation of the international order and global structure, have shattered the foundation of the European Union's international leverage and reshaped its global status profoundly, forcing it to search for a new foreign strategy. Numerous challenges against multilateralism have undermined the institutional basis on which the EU has relied to exert global influence over time, and the intensification of geopolitical competition among major powers reveals the fragility of the European power structure. Frequent crises of the transatlantic alliance not only undermine the EU's strategic reliance on it but also threaten its core interests directly. The accumulation of internal crises within the EU has seriously endangered its legitimacy while also critically threatening its power foundation. Consequently, reflecting upon the causes of the potential marginalization of its global status, the EU has reemphasized its strategic autonomy by proposing new concepts such as European sovereignty, a sovereign Europe, etc. Meanwhile, the EU has shifted its domestic and foreign policies and reshaped its means of exerting influence, seeking to wield hard power in global geopolitical competition and safeguard its core interests independently. Following the logic of geopolitical competition, the EU has taken a more realistic stance when strategically reshaping its power structure and the ways of leveraging it. Such a shift to realism will not only affect the EU's various domestic and foreign policies but also influence multilateralism, the transatlantic alliance and the future development of the international order and the global power structure. Jin Ling is Deputy Director and Senior Research Fellow at the Department for European Studies, China Institute of International Studies (CIIS). 'A Sovereign Europe: Transforming the European Union to Hard Power? MarchlApri1 2020 1 39

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