The European Union is facing the worst existential crisis in its history. At the same time, it is confronted with old and new challenges in its environment that call for joint action. But how do matters stand with the EU's capacity to act? Does the EU manage to effectively combine the different components of its external relations -- such as trade, development aid, and security policy -- better than it did in the past? How is the EU's external action determined by the internal socio-economic and political crises in its member states? These questions and more are answered in Global Europe in the context of the current impasse in the integration process. A clear analysis of the history of the EU's external relations up to now provides us with a better insight into the feasibility of EU strategies directed at the outside world.
- Cover
- Contents
- List of Abbreviations
- Preface
- 1. Introduction
- Theory formation at the intersection of international relations and European integration studies
- 1.1. A brief history of the EU’s external relations
- 1.2. Approaches within the field of international relations
- 1.3. European integration theories
- 1.4. Conclusion
- Suggestions for further reading
- 2. Foreign policy theories and the external relations of the European Union
- Factors and actors
- 2.1. The study of foreign policy
- 2.2. The EU as an actor in the world: internal power and external power
- 2.3. Conclusion
- Suggestions for further reading
- 3. The European Union’s trade policy
- 3.1. The EU as a power factor (and actor) in international relations
- 3.1.1. The remarkable renaissance of the superpower thesis
- 3.1.2. The proliferation of adjectives: power as a grab bag
- 3.2. EU trade policy
- 3.2.1. The EU as a trading state and as an external power: who are the principals and who are the agents?
- 3.2.2. The partnership between the European Commission and European business: commercial internationalism explained
- 3.3. Case study I: the TTIP as a source of (trans)national conflict
- 3.4. Case study II: the Common Agricultural Policy and the Janus face of the EU
- 3.5. Conclusion
- Suggestions for further reading
- 4. Decolonisation and enlargement: The European Union’s development policy
- 4.1. A brief history of the EU’s development policy
- 4.2. The most important characteristics of EU development policy since the Cotonou Treaty (2000)
- 4.2.1. The development of development theory: From hope to nihilism?
- 4.2.2. Trade and aid: Two sides of the same coin?
- 4.3. EU actorness and the position of development policy in EU external relations: Challenges or contradictions?
- 4.4. Conclusion
- Suggestions for further reading
- 5. The end of the Cold War, the enlargement strategy, and the European Union’s Neighbourhood Policy
- 5.1. Deepening or widening, enlargement and disintegration?
- 5.1.1. Previous enlargement rounds and the dynamics of deeper integration
- 5.1.2. Big bang enlargement in comparative perspective
- 5.2. The EU as transformative power?
- 5.3. Beyond big bang enlargement: dilemmas of a larger Europe
- 5.3.1. Enlargement and Euroscepticism: incompatible quantities?
- 5.3.2. Beyond conditionality: the spectre of populism
- 5.3.3. Enlargement as security strategy: the EU and the Western Balkans
- 5.4. The new neighbours as friends: the Neighbourhood Policy
- 5.5. Conclusion
- Suggestions for further reading
- 6. Internal-external
- Security in a liberal and multipolar world order
- 6.1. European integration and Atlantic security during the Cold War
- 6.2. The trans-Atlantic impasse: EU-US relations after the Cold War
- 6.2.1. Hegemonic stability under fire
- 6.2.2. Towards a post-American Europe?
- 6.3. New security threats and old reflexes
- 6.4. European security and defence policy
- 6.4.1. A brief history of the CSDP
- 6.4.2. The Global Strategy of the European Union and the CSDP
- 6.4.3. Factors and actors
- 6.5. Towards a multipolar world? Changing power relations in the international system
- 6.6. Conclusion
- Suggestions for further reading
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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