Bandmaster or Conductor: What is Wrong with the EU ”Selective Engagement” Policy?

... business elites who are in favor of a dialogue with Europe should be motivated and emboldened, while those who oppose it need to be isolated and weakened. And who, if not the European Union, is capable of composing and performing the complex score of “selective engagement”? The European Union has unique experience in dealing with Russia, and it boasts an extremely wide range of tools for exerting influence on the country’s leaders, as well as on Russian society in general. The European school of diplomacy is in many ways far ...