What drives EU foreign policy?
Use the links below to explore the literature and EU links to learn the various approaches which scholars have used to conceptualise the nature of the EU and its external action, including Civilian Power, Normative Power, Market Power, Structural Power, Ethical Power, the Capability-Expectations Gap, Presence-Actorness, EU External Governance, etc.
Literature
Rieker, P. & Giske, M. T. E. European Actorness in a Shifting Geopolitical Order: European Strategic Autonomy Through Differentiated Integration. Springer, 2024
Freire, M.R., Lopes, P.D., Nascimento, D., & Simão, L. EU Global Actorness in a World of Contested Leadership. Policies, Instruments and Perceptions. Palgrave MacMillan, 2022.
Müller, P., Pomorska, K., & Tonra, B. The Domestic Challenge to EU Foreign Policy-Making: From Europeanization to de-Europeanization? Journal of European Integration, 43(5), 2021.
Ikani, N. (Ed.) . Crisis and change in European Union foreign policy: A framework of EU foreign policy change. Manchester University Press, 2021.
Wolff, S. Secular Power Europe and Islam: Identity and Foreign Policy. University of Michigan Press, 2021.
Gstöhl, S. & Schunz, S. (Eds.) The External Action of the European Union: Concepts, Approaches, Theories. Red Globe Press, 2021.
Chaban, N., et al. (Eds.). Special issue: Perceptions and narratives of the EU Crisis Diplomacy. European Security 28(3), pp.235-391, 2019.
Lobo-Guerrero, L. & Alt, S. & Meijer, M. Imaginaries of Connectivity: The Creation of Novel Spaces of Governance. Rowman & Littlefield, 20119.
Lucarelli, S., Sperling, J. & Webber, M. (Eds). Special issue: The European Union, Security Governance and Collective Securitisation,West European Politics, 42(2), 2019.
Rhinard, M. and G. Sjöstedt. The EU as a Global Actor: A new conceptualisation four decades after ‘actorness’, THE SWEDISH INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, 2019.