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Who Is Competing for Influence in Europe? | Dimitar Bechev
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Europe is no longer only shaping its neighbourhood. It is also an arena where Turkey, China and Russia pursue competing strategies to influence the continent.
In this episode, Wojciech Przybylski speaks with Dimitar Bechev, Senior Fellow at Carnegie Europe, about his new book 'The Scramble for Europe: Russia, China, and Turkey Challenging Regional Order'.
Bechev argues that Russia, China and Turkey should not be treated as a coherent anti-European bloc, as each pursues a distinct strategy. Russia seeks to revise the European order, China aims to deepen Europe’s economic dependence and Turkey seeks a more advantageous place in Europe’s political architecture.
How should Europe respond? Can it retain agency in an increasingly geopolitical era? Listen to the episode.
00:00 Introduction02:02 What is Europe’s regional order?05:47 CEE’s experience of power politics11:10 Three strategies for Europe: Russia, China and Turkey19:18 Europe's old (new) strategy of muddling through?25:33 What should Europe do?
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