The European Union's significance as an international actor rests on several foundations. Empirically, the Union's size, scope and scale gives it a presence in the world in terms of politics, diplomacy, economics, trade and aid that is in need of analysis and contextualisation. In theoretical terms, the Union is a fascinating experiment in democratic, multi-state, multinational polity-building the likes of which we have not seen before. Across four volumes, the editors present the foundational articles that have shaped mainstream academic discourse surrounding this topic as well as a handful of more provocative pieces. The result is a series of maps; at different scales and highlighting different topographical features, which will cumulatively provide a sophisticated and nuanced understanding of this fascinating international actor. Volume One: Foundations and Design Volume Two: International Political Economy Volume Three: Core Foreign Policies Volume Four: Critical International Relationships
VOLUME ONE: FOUNDATIONS AND DESIGN Information Exchanges, Diplomatic Networks and the Construction of European Knowledge in European Union Foreign Policy - Federica Bicchi Institutionalization, Policy Adaptation and European Foreign Policy Cooperation - Michael E. Smith Building a European Diplomacy: Recruitment and Training to the EEAS - Mai'a K. Davis Cross Market Power Europe - Chad Damro The EU as a Global Actor: Grand Strategy for a Global Grand Bargain? - Jolyon Howorth 'In the Face of Adversity': Explaining the Attitudes of EEAS Officials vis-a-vis the New Service - Ana E. Juncos and Karolina Pomorska EU Foreign Policy through the Lens of Practice Theory: A Different Approach to the European External Action Service - Christian Lequesne The Normative Ethics of the European Union - Ian Manners When Soft Power Turns Hard: Is an EU Strategic Culture Possible? - Janne Haaland Matlary The New EU 'Foreign Policy' System after Lisbon: A Work in Progress - Antonio Missiroli EU External Policy at the Crossroads: The Challenge of Actorness and Effectiveness - Arne Niemann and Charlotte Bretherton The European External Action Service and the European Parliament - Kolja Raube Not so Intergovernmental after All? On Democracy and Integration in European Foreign and Security Policy - Helene Sjursen The European Challenge to Foreign Policy Analysis - Brian White The Early Days of the European External Action Service: A Practitioner's View - David Spence The Consensus-Expectations Gap: Explaining Europe's Ineffective Foreign Policy - Asle Toje VOLUME TWO: INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY Governing Lipitor and Lipstick: Capacity, Sequencing, and Power in International Pharmaceutical and Cosmetics Regulation - David Bach and Abraham L. Newman The Brussels Effect - Ann Bradford Mission Impossible: The European Union and Policy Coherence for Development - Maurizio Carbone What Does the International Currency System Really Look Like? - Benjamin J. Cohen and Tabitha M. Benney Variation in EU Member States' Preferences and the Commission's Discretion in the Doha Round - Eugenia da Conceicao-Heldt Bringing Economic Interests Back in the Study of EU Trade Policy-Making - Andreas Duer Public Opinion and Interest Group Influence: How Citizen Groups Derailed the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement - Andreas Duer and Gemma Mateo EU-Global Interactions: Policy Export, Import, Promotion and Protection - Patrick Mueller, Zdenek Kudrna and Gerda Falkner Energy Co-operation in the Wider Europe: Institutionalizing Interdependence - Stephen Padgett The Power of Economic Ideas: A Constructivist Political Economy of EU Trade Policy - Gabriel Siles-Bruegge Foreign Policy and Development in the Post-Lisbon European Union - Michael Smith Trade Politics Ain't What It Used to Be: The European Union in the Doha Round - Alasdair R. Young VOLUME THREE: CORE FOREIGN POLICIES Decision-Making in Security and Defense Policy: Towards Supranational Inter-Governmentalism? - Jolyon Howorth The European Union and Crisis Management: Will the Lisbon Treaty Make the EU More Effective? - Steven Blockmans and Ramses A. Wessel Standing Together or Doing the Splits? Evaluating European Union Performance in the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty Review Negotiations - Megan Dee The EU as a Global Leader? The Copenhagen and Cancun UN Climate Change Negotiations - Lisanne Groen, Arne Niemann and Sebastian Oberthuer The European Union, Democracy and Counter-Terrorism in the Maghreb - George Joffe The European Union at the Copenhagen Climate Negotiations: A Case of Contested EU Actorness and Effectiveness - Lisanne Groen and Arne Niemann Trading Places: The Role of the United States and the European Union in International Environmental Politics - R. Daniel Kelemen and David Vogel Geostrategies of the European Neighbourhood Policy - Christopher S. Browning and Pertti Joenniemi Multilevelling EU External Governance: The Role of International Organizations in the Diffusion of EU Migration Policies - Sandra Lavenex The EU's Non-proliferation Strategy Ten Years On - Andrew Cottey EU Democracy Promotion in the European Neighbourhood Political Conditionality, Economic Development and Transnational Exchange - Frank Schimmelfennig and Hanno Scholtz External Dimensions of European Environmental Policy: An Analysis of Environmental Treaty Ratification by Third States - Kai Schulze and Jale Tosun Capabilities and Coherence? The Evolution of European Union Conflict Prevention - Emma J. Stewart External Perceptions and EU Foreign Policy Effectiveness: The Case of Climate Change - Diarmuid Torney Promoting Embedded Democracy? Researching the Substance of EU Democracy Promotion - Anne Wetzel and Jan Orbie Coherence in the EU's External Human Rights Policy: The Case of the Democratic Republic of the Congo - Lieselot Verdonck The EU as a Conflict Manager? The Case of Georgia and Its Implications - Richard G. Whitman and Stefan Wolff VOLUME FOUR: CRITICAL INTERNATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS Between EU Actorness and Aid Effectiveness: The Logics of EU Aid to Sub-Saharan Africa - Maurizio Carbone Trade and Aid? The Negotiated Construction of EU Policy on Economic Partnership Agreements - Ole Elgstroem European Union Actorness in International Institutions: Why the EU Is Recognized as an Actor in Some International Institutions, but Not in Others - Thomas Gehring, Sebastian Oberthuer and Marc Muehleck From Cooperative to Contested Europe? The Conflict in Ukraine as a Culmination of a Long-Term Crisis in EU-Russia Relations - Hiski Haukkala The Development of EU-China Relations - Fraser Cameron The EU and NATO after Libya and Afghanistan: The Future of Euro-US Security Cooperation - Jolyon Howorth The European Union and the Politics of Legitimization at the United Nations - Karen E. Smith The EU's China Problem: A Battle over Norms - Ayse Kaya More for More, Less for Less-More or Less: A Critique of the EU's Arab Spring Response a la Cinderella - Jan Claudius Voelkel The Challenge of Cooperation: Regulatory Trade Barriers in the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership - Simon Lester and Inu Barbee Normative versus Market Power Europe? The EU-India Trade Agreement - Jan Orbie and Sangeeta Khorana EU-China Relations and the Limits of Economic Diplomacy - Michael Smith The EU: Standing Aside from the Changing Global Balance of Power? - Richard Whitman The Rise and Fall (?) of the EU's Performance in the Multilateral Trading System - Alasdair R. Young
