Thus The Wall Street Journal today. “With the assumptions underlying its European Neighborhood Policy undermined, a shift is on the agenda of the EU’s new foreign-policy chief, Federica Mogherini,” explains the newspaper. “But what to do?” Exactly. A decade ago, the European Neighborhood Policy was launched so as to create “a ring of well-governed states” to the European Union’s east and south. What with turmoil in many Arab countries and the war in both the Middle East and Ukraine, things have gone downhill ever since. The policy was successful only where the prospect of membership was on the table, such as with the Union’s newest member, Croatia. Foreign-policy experts widely agree that a new approach is needed. The question is what will Mogherini do during her mandate. How about eventual membership in the rest of the Western Balkans and Turkey? And how about support of nearby countries, such as Ukraine and Moldova, Georgia and Armenia, as well as Tunisia and Morocco? One of the key questions of the Union’s foreign policy is how to deal with Russia, and the article addresses it in passing. But it skips all the leading countries somewhat farther away, such as America, China, India, and Brazil. Although Mogherini is yet to be heard on all this, the article suggests that she will focus on the neighborhood only. This sounds kind of disappointing at first. On some thought, though, this stands to reason. Europe is in the boondocks by now and it makes no sense pretending that it is a player in world affairs, as it was once upon a time. Now that America has become a Pacific country, Europe had better take care of its own neighborhood.