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9781403949219

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

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  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2006-01-06
  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
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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

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