Term Paper on "Building Strategy Partnership"

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Building Strategy Partnership

As the 21st century briskly moves forward, the entire planet finds itself presented with ever more complex ways of conducting commerce, international relations, and virtually every other aspect of human interaction- in other words, the building of strategic partnerships. In the classic view of the various classes of people and their development of strategy, each class struggles to reach their full potential, in the midst of other classes fighting to do the same (Cohen). Perhaps one of the most diverse coalitions to emerge in recent times is that of the European Union, or EU. This strategic partnership of many of the nations of Europe holds the potential to quite literally change the world. In this paper, the EU will be examined not only based upon the current relevant literature, but also in the scope of "Five Lenses Class Theory."

Review of Relevant Literature

In order to adequately discuss the European Union or EU for short, it is necessary to first present a brief history of how the EU began. Because of Europe's history of war and destruction throughout the late 1800's into the mid-1900's, many European leaders believed that the best way to secure a lasting peace throughout Europe was to create an economic and political bond between her nations. In 1950, it was proposed that the coal and steel industries of Western Europe be united. In response, the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) was formed in 1951 by Belgium, West Germany, Luxembourg, France, Italy and the Netherlands. Because of the success of the ECSC, its member nations formed the European Atomic Energy Community (EURATOM) and the European Economic Community (EEC) in 1957, with a goal of creating a common market (Brittan). Moving ahead to 1992, the Maastricht Treaty laid groundwork of cooperation between European nations on such items as defense and justice, which when combined with the earlier strategic alliances, created the EU. Over time, the EU has expanded to include nearly half a billion people from 25 member nations (Borowiec).

The potential of this coalition is quite obviously tremendous, and deserves closer analysis. With this analysis in mind, the coalition will now be examined according to one of the most comprehensive analytical tools in existence.

Analysis of the Coalition According to "Five Lenses Class Theory"

Moving beyond the classic considerations of class theory that were first popularized by such controversial thinkers as Karl Marx and others, the use of "Five Lenses" gives the opportunity to give the EU a closer, more thorough examination, based upon the criteria of "Five Lenses" as follows:

Formality- Regarding the use of formality in the class structure of the EU, it is paradoxically an asset as well as liability within the EU itself. On the positive side, formality allows the EU a great deal of control in terms of the nations that are, or are not admitted, in a sort of quality control mechanism; negatively, however, this same formality in many cases leads to the kinds of bureaucracy that some say impedes legitimate progress (Borowiec). In this, there lies an important lesson about the role of formality in class structure; while there is certainly a given amount of formality that is important to maintain order within and among the classes, too rigid of a formal structure will in fact have the opposite effect, stifling progress and deterring new participants in the coalition. In the case of the EU, this sort of controversy, for example, has brewed around Turkish admission to the coalition for many years (Gorvett).

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