Can Europe thrive in a multipolar world?

April 30, 2026

Mark Leonard speaks to EI’s Jack Dickens about Europe’s place in a changing world order.

Europe appears adrift between an ever more isolationist US and an industrially dominant China. How should the continent navigate its new predicament? In his new book Surviving Chaos: Geopolitics When the Rules Fail, Mark Leonard, co-founder and director of the European Council on Foreign Relations, charts a path forward. 

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