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The book analyzes some of the key issues confronted by European policy makers. These issues include effective multilateralism; common foreign and security policy; multiculturalism; climate change; security challenges; rise of populism; Brexit; the Ukrainian crisis; relations with Russia; standoff in Catalonia; as well as migration and the refugee crisis.

The book is a unique attempt to understand these issues from an outside perspective by established scholars of European Studies in India.

Professor Gulshan Sachdeva is Jean Monnet Chair & Director of the Europe Area Studies Programme at the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, India. He is also Editor-in-Chief of International Studies. He headed the ADB and Asia Foundation projects at the Afghanistan Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Kabul (2006-2010). Prior to that he was Chair of the Centre for European Studies and Director of the Energy Studies Programme at JNU. His research interests include the European Union, Eurasian integration, Afghanistan, development cooperation and energy security. He was the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) Chair on Contemporary India at the University of Leuven, Belgium, and Visiting Professor at the University of Warsaw, Poland, University of Trento, Italy, University of Antwerp, Belgium, Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary and Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania. He has written numerous project reports for industry and government ministries and published more than 100 research papers in academic journals and edited books. He is a regular contributor to print and broadcast media on both economic and security issues. He holds a PhD in Economics from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest.