Research

Theories

 
 

Introduction to academic literature on the fundamental concepts, tools and theoretical approaches used to analyse European foreign policy.

 
 

Literature

Hoijtink, M., Mühlenhoff, H. L., & Welfens, N. (Eds.) Special Issue: Whose (In)Security? Gender, Race and Coloniality in European Security Policies, European Security, 32(3), 2023.

Reiners, W., & Turhan, E. (Eds.). EU-Turkey Relations: Theories, Institutions, and Policies. Springer Nature, 2021.

Wolff, S. Secular Power Europe and Islam: Identity and Foreign Policy. University of Michigan Press, 2021.

Süleymanoğlu-Kürüm R., Cin F.M. (Eds). Feminist Framing of Europeanisation. Gender Equality Policies in Turkey and the EU. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, 2021.

Bigo, D., Diez, T., Fanoulis, E., Rosamond, B. and Stivachtis, Y.A. (Eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Critical European Studies, Routledge, 2021.

Gstöhl, S. & Schunz, S. The External Action of the European Union: Concepts, Approaches, Theories. Red Globe Press, Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.

De Bièvre, D., Garcia-Duran, P., Eliasson, L, H. & Costa, O. Special issue: Politicization of EU Trade Policy across Time and Space. Cogitatio press, 2020.

Belloni, R., Della Sala, V, and Viotti, P. (eds.). Fear and Uncertainty in Europe: The Return to Realism?. Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.

Brummer, K., et al. Foreign policy as public policy?: Promises and pitfalls, Manchester University Press, 2019.

Jordana, J., et al., (Eds.) Changing Borders in Europe: Exploring the Dynamics of Integration, Differentiation and Self-Determination in the European Union, Routledge, 2019.

Barton, B. Political Trust and the Politics of Security Engagement: China and the European Union in Africa. Routledge, 2018.

Zwolski, K. European Security in Integration Theory: Contested Boundaries. Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.

Kleine, M., et al. Special Issue:Liberal Intergovernmentalism and its Critics. Journal of Common Market Studies, 2018.

Meissner, K. Commercial Realism and EU Trade Policy. Routledge, 2018.

Schumacher, T., Marchetti, A. and Demmelhuber, T. (Eds.) The Routledge Handbook on the European Neighbourhood PolicyPART I, Abingdon: Routledge, 2018.

Tonra, B., Whitman, R. & Young, A. Foreign Policy of the European Union (4 volumes). Sage. 2017

Hooghe, L., Marks, G., Lenz, T., Bezuijen, J., Ceka, B. and Derderyan, S. Measuring International Authority: A Postfunctionalist Theory of Governance. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017.

Delreux, T. & Adriaensen, J. The Principal Agent Model and the European Union. Palgrave, 2017

Gstöhl, S. & Schunz, S. (Eds). Theorizing the European Neighbourhood Policy. Routledge, 2017.

Carta, C. and Morin, J.-F. (Eds.) EU foreign policy through the lens of discourse analysis: Making sense of diversity. Routledge, 2016.

Chamlian, L. & Nabers, D. (Eds.). Foucault Meets EU Studies. Global Society, 2016.

Chelotti, N. The formulation of EU foreign policy: socialization, negotiations and disaggregation of the state. Routledge, 2016.

Ryner, M. & Cafruny, A.The European Union and Global Capitalism: Origins, Development, Crisis. Palgrave. 2016

Berling, T.V., The International Political Sociology of Security Rethinking. Theory and Practice, Abingdon: Routledge, 2015.

Jorgensen, K.E., Aarstad, K.A., Drieskens, E., Laatikainen, K. and B. Tonra (eds.), The SAGE Handbook of European Foreign Policy (PART II: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES), London, Sage, 2015.

Peen Rodt, A, Whitman, R-G. & Wolff, S. Special issue: Theorising the European Union as an International Security Provider: Actors, Processes, Outcomes and Impact Global Society 29(2), 2015.

Carta, C., Morin, M., EU Foreign Policy through the Lens of Discourse Analysis: making sense of diversity, Surrey, Ashgate, 2014.

Saurugger, S., Theoretical Approaches to European Integration, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Bynander, F. & Guzzini, S. (eds.), Rethinking Foreign Policy, Abingdon & New York, Routledge, 2013.

Dür, A. & Elsig, M. (eds.), The European Union's Foreign Economic Policies. A Principal-Agent Perspective, Abingdon, Routledge, 2013.

Jones, E. & van Genugten, S. (eds.), The Future of European Foreign Policy, Abingdon, Routledge, 2013.

Beach, D., Analyzing Foreign Policy, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

Alden, C. &  Aran, A. Foreign Policy Analysis: New Approaches, London, Routledge, 2012.

Kurowska, X. and Breuer, F. (eds.), Explaining the EU’s Common Security and Defence Policy: Theory in Action, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

Stadtmüller E & K. Bachmann (eds.), The EU's Shifting Borders: Theoretical Approaches and Policy Implications in the New Neighbourhood, London, Routledge, 2012.

Jones, E., Menon, A. & Weatherill, S. (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the European Union, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2012.

Smith, S., Hadfield, A. & Dunne, T. (eds.), Foreign Policy: Theories, Actors, Cases (2nd edition), Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2012.

Toje, A. & Kunz, B. (eds.), Neoclassical realism in European politics Bringing power back in, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2012.

Baylis, J., Smith, S.  & Owens, P.  (eds.), The Globalization of World Politics: An Introduction to International Relations, fifth edition, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2011.

Hanspeter, K. (Ed.). (2015). Democracy Promotion by Functional Cooperation: The European Union and Its Neighbourhood. Abingdon: Routledge Ltd.

Walker, S.G., Malici, A. & Schafer, M. (eds.), Rethinking Foreign Policy Analysis: States, Leaders, and the Microfoundations of Behavioral International Relations, Abingdon, Routledge, 2011.

Dunne, T., Hansen, L. & Wight, C. Special issue: The end of International Relations theory?" European Journal of International Relations 19(3): 2013.

Kratochvil, P. & Tulmets, E., Constructivism and Rationalism in EU External Relations. The Case of the European Neighbourhood Policy, Baden-Baden, Nomos, 2010.

Hill, C. & Smith, M. (eds.), International Relations and the European Union (2nd edition), Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2011.

Koutrakos, P. (ed.), European Foreign Policy: Legal and Political Perspectives, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2011.

Rowell, J. & Mangenot, M. (eds.), A Political Sociology of the European Union. Reassessing constructivism, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2011.

Schröder, U. The Organization of European Security Governance: Internal and External Security in Transition. Routledge, 2011.