Reversing Europe’s Gaze

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“What an intellectual treat to be confronted with different visions of how Europe and the EU can be imagined across spaces and time!”
-Stephanie C. Hofmann, EUI

“Reversing Europe’s gaze is now essential to understanding our turbulent world order. This book is an invaluable guide to how to navigate that new terrain.”
-Rana Mitter, Harvard Kennedy School

“Fascinating and timely at a moment of history when the very idea of Europe and ‘the West’ may be unraveling.”
-Amitav Acharya, American University

“Reversing the gaze is what European leaders need in their much-needed dialogue with the rest of the world to rebuild shared global norms.”
-Cemil Aydin, University of North Carolina

“At a moment of critical global realignment, this book offers a unique vantage point on how Europe is seen by its major partners and rivals.”
-Eyvgeny Roschin, SAIS

“The book is notable for its extensive attention to the thinking of youth both in Europe and “abroad”.”
-Norman Naimark, Stanford University

Much of the literature on the EU and international relations follows elites and policymakers in looking from the top down and from the inside out. This enquiry attempts a double reversal of the gaze: it probes Europe from the outside in, and from the bottom up. It explores how the continent is seen through the eyes of other global powers (China, India, Turkey, Russia, the United States) and their younger generations, whose views often tend to elude scholarly attention. The book provides an original account of how power affects international perceptions, and how international perceptions affect power.

Olivier de France is Stipendiary Lecturer in Political Theory at Pembroke College, University of Oxford, UK.

Paul Betts is Professor of Modern European History at St Antony’s College, University of Oxford, UK.

Timothy Garton Ash is Professor of European Studies Emeritus at the University of Oxford and a Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution

Ayşe Kadıoğlu is Professor of Political Science at Sabancı University, Türkiye.

Kalypso Nicolaidis is Chair in Global Affairs at the Florence School of Transnational Governance (EUI), Italy, and Emeritus Fellow of the University of Oxford’s European Studies Centre, UK.

This volume uncovers fresh perspectives and compelling new data about how Europe is perceived beyond its borders. Much of the literature on the EU and international relations tends to follow elites and policymakers in looking from the top down and from the inside out. The enquiry attempts a double reversal of the gaze: it probes Europe from the outside in, and from the bottom up. It explores how the continent is seen through the eyes of other global powers (China, India, Turkey, Russia, the United States) and their younger generations, whose views often tend to elude scholarly attention. Qualitative and quantitative lenses combine to provide an original account of how power affects international perceptions, and how international perceptions affect power.

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“What an intellectual treat to be confronted with different visions of how Europe and the EU can be imagined across spaces and time. This volume draws the reader’s attention to how political elites and (young) public perceptions in China, India, Russia, Turkey and the United States selectively mobilize major political events, such as wars and other episodes of mass mobilizations, as well as (imperial) legacies, to articulate what they understand Europe and the EU to be. This interdisciplinary assemblage of essays skillfully confronts the reader with the ways in which political elites and (young) publics draw on shared or divergent historical experiences to create meaning and make sense of what Europe and the EU can stand for.” (Stephanie C. Hofmann, EUI, Italy)

“Profound expertise on Europe’s past and present meet powerful thinking about its future in this thoughtful and original volume. Reversing the gaze – seeing Europe as it’s understood from the fast-growing societies of Asia and beyond – is now essential to understanding our turbulent world order. This book is an invaluable guide to how to navigate that new terrain.” (Rana Mitter, Harvard Kennedy School, United States)

“Fascinating and timely. At a moment of history when the very idea of Europe and "the West" of which it is foundational, may be unraveling, this unusual and wide-ranging collection of essays may help us understand what has gone wrong and what remains right about Europe's role in the world.” (Amitav Acharya, American University, United States)

“When Frantz Fanon wrote the famous sentence “Europe is literally a creation of the Third World,” at the peak of the decolonization process of the 1960s, intellectuals of the global south had already been immersed in the project of rescuing the values of universal enlightenment Europe’s betrayal of them. Thus every non-European intellectual had to be an expert on Europe, and there was more written about Europe outside of EU borders than inside. Reversing Europe’s Gaze offers scholarly self-reflection on a path that a humbler European Union should take in radically realigned multipolar international order. Perspectives and arguments presented in A Reversal of the Gaze are what European leaders need in their much-needed dialogue with the rest of the world to rebuild the shared global norms and true freedom for all.” (Cemil Aydin, University of North Carolina, United States)

“At a moment of critical global realignment, this book offers a unique vantage point on how Europe is seen by its major partners and rivals. It reconstructs the perspectives of younger generations in China, India, Turkey, Russia, and the United States through the work of a new generation of scholars from the corresponding national contexts. As such, it constitutes a theoretically and politically performative exercise in imagining the contours of Europe in the world to come.” (Eyvgeny Roschin, SAIS, United States)

“The collection of scholarly essays, Reversing Europe’s Gaze, is part of a larger multi-national project on “Europe in a Changing World” sponsored by the Dahrendorf Program at the University of Oxford and led by Timothy Garton Ash, Paul Betts, and Olivier de France. The book concludes with a thoughtful and evocative epilogue by Ayse Kadioglu and Kalyso Nicolaidis on the pitfalls of European universalism. In preparation for the volume, the project engaged scholars from China, India, Russia, Turkey, and the U.S. in a two-year series of online seminars, discussions, and opinion surveys that explored the complex influence of non-Europeans on the self-perceptions and power projections of Europeans themselves. The book is notable for its extensive attention to the contributions of younger scholars and to the thinking of youth both in Europe and “abroad.” The central objective of the articles is to elucidate ways in which Europeans can and should learn from external perceptions and experiences to help shape their own future and the destiny of the planet.” (Norman Naimark, Stanford University, United States)

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