Understanding the European Union's External Relations

by Knodt,MichFle

• ISBN13: 9780415296977
• ISBN10: 0415296978
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-06-02
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This book systematically links the EU's external relations to existing political theories, showing how existing theories need to be modified in order to deal with specific characteristics of the EU as an international actor.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	ix
Notes on contributors	x
Series editor's preface	xiii
Preface	xv
Acknowledgements	xvi
Introduction: Puzzles and prospects in theorizing the EU's external relations	1	(16)
Michele Knodt
Sebastiaan Princen
PART I The development of the EU's external role: Between co-operation and fragmentation	17	(56)
A fragmented external role: the EU, defence policy, and New Atlanticism	19	(16)
Sten Rynning
Understanding the common foreign and security policy: analytical building blocks	35	(19)
Helene Sjursen
What game? By which rules? Adaptation and flexibility in the EC's foreign economic policy	54	(19)
Alasdair R. Young
PART II Internal decision-making on external policies: The challenges of multiple levels and multiple pillars	73	(52)
Framing an American threat: the European Commission and the technology gap	75	(17)
Ulrika Morth
European external relations fields: the multi-pillar issue of economic sanctions against Serbia	92	(15)
Yves Buchet de Neuilly
Negotiating when others are watching: explaining the outcome of the association negotiations between the European Community and the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, 1990--1991	107	(18)
Dimitris Papadimitriou
PART III Promoting European norms, values and ideas: The EU as an exporter of models	125	(68)
Exporting `values'? EU external co-operation as a `soft diplomacy'	127	(15)
Franck Petiteville
Exporting regulatory standards: the cases of trapping and data protection	142	(16)
Sebastiaan Princen
The export of the fight against organized crime policy model and the EU's international actorness	158	(15)
Francesca Longo
A challenge for the commons: EU fisheries management in international arenas	173	(20)
Marta A. Ballesteros
PART IV Conclusion	193	(16)
Understanding the EU's external relations: the move from actors to processes	195	(14)
Sebastiaan Princen
Michele Knodt
Index	209