Europe: A Civilian Power? European Union, Global Governance, World Order

by Telò, Mario

• ISBN13: 9781403949219
• ISBN10: 1403949212
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-01-06
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

The European Union has a vital role to play in the new political challenges of the twenty-first century. Europe as a Civilian Power considers the different positions of the EU and the US and analyzes globalization, the new security threats, the global role of the US and the debate on the evolving global system.

Author Biography

Mario Telò is Professor of Political Science, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.

Table of Contents

List of Maps	viii
Maps	ix
Foreword and Acknowledgements	xii
List of Abbreviations	xvi
Civilian Power and International Relations: the EU and Multilateralism from the Twentieth to the Twenty-first Century	1	(105)
Long-term trends and epoch-making events in the development of the international identity of the EU as a civilian power	1	(9)
The rise and fall of the myth of `global governance without government'	10	(2)
Empire and imperialism: misleading metaphors	12	(6)
The use and abuse of the concepts of `hegemony' and `hegemonic stability'	18	(6)
Towards a multipolar world? The limits of American power and the emergence of China	24	(11)
The new international anarchy: informal terrorism, failed states and WMD proliferation	35	(4)
Which multilateralism? Institutions and values in a transitional phase	39	(11)
The reality of the EU as an incipient, collective civilian power	50	(8)
Europe: a civilian power at a crossroads?	58	(6)
Reforming the multilateral system	64	(7)
The EU: the engine for a subsidiary multilateral system combining force and consensus	71	(3)
A new transatlantic partnership between equals?	74	(4)
Democratic legitimacy and accountability at regional and global levels	78	(28)
States, New Regionalism and Interregional Cooperation in the Globalized World	106	(46)
State and regional integration	106	(3)
From regionness to new regionalism: elements for historical periodization at a global scale and in Europe	109	(6)
Globalization, states and regional organizations: three theoretical approaches	115	(5)
Comparative analysis of the major regional organizations: economic, political and cultural factors	120	(5)
Contributing to regional cooperation and integration theory	125	(4)
US-centred regionalism and interregionalism: from NAFTA to FTAA	129	(2)
Latin America and MERCOSUR. American and European interregional projects	131	(4)
ASEAN between Japan, China and the United States. Interregional dialogue with the EU	135	(3)
The SADC, ECOWAS and African regionalism: politics and economics	138	(3)
A structural and multidimensional phenomenon of uncertain destiny	141	(2)
The EU, new regionalism and democratization	143	(9)
The Heart of European Integration: the Socio-economic Model between Convergence and National Diversities	152	(46)
The socio-economic dimension of civilian power	152	(2)
The concept of solidarity in the great traditions of European thought: Christianity, liberalism and socialism	154	(3)
A Europe of national Welfare States	157	(5)
The European socio-economic model and the challenges of the neo-conservative revolution	162	(7)
Reforming the European social model: national and European solutions	169	(2)
The question of convergence: the `Lisbon Strategy' and the `Open Method of Coordination'	171	(3)
Modernization policies for a European model of a knowledge society	174	(3)
The Lisbon agenda implementation: achievements and shortcomings	177	(2)
The controversy surrounding supranational European democracy	179	(2)
The `mixed government' of socio-economic modernization	181	(1)
The impact of the `Lisbon Strategy' on the international role and identity of the EU: the case of research policy	182	(4)
From the reform of social governance to the strengthening of the legal basis of economic government and a social Europe?	186	(3)
The socio-economic model and European identity	189	(9)
The Development of the European Union as an International Actor	198	(54)
The growth of the EC/EU as a global economic actor	199	(2)
A non-teleological history: the vicissitudes of the CFSP and CSDP	201	(6)
The roots of the ambiguity of European power	207	(3)
The widening and deepening of the EU: the institutional variable	210	(4)
The EU and globalization, new regionalism and multilateralism: three scenarios	214	(8)
A civilian and political power: the third scenario	222	(5)
A structural foreign policy	227	(5)
The challenges of the next decade: Turkish membership and the EU's south-eastern border	232	(5)
The challenges of the next decade: transatlantic partnership and new multilateralism	237	(15)
The Process of Treaty Reform: the International Dimension	252	(26)
The constitutional process	252	(2)
The concepts of `civilian power' and `shared power'	254	(7)
The EU and global governance: beyond cosmopolitanism	261	(5)
A `mixed government' for the European Union of the twenty-first century?	266	(12)
Index	278