Values and Principles in European Union Foreign Policy

by Lucarelli; Sonia

• ISBN13: 9780415371360
• ISBN10: 0415371368
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-05-25
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

As a fresh examination of the values and principles that inform EU Foreign Policy, this book presents a clear and close reading of the EU as an international actor. This up-to-date volume explores the implications of these values and principles on the construction of European Union identity today. It also shows how current debates on European Union foreign policy and on European identity tend to be kept separated as if the process of identity formation had only an internal dimension or it was not related to the external behavior of an international actor. This new book examines the values and principles that inform EU Foreign Policy in order to achieve a better understanding of the EU as an international actor and to explore implications of these values and principles on the process of the construction of the European Union identity. Conceiving EU Foreign Policy in its broadest context, as a set of political actions that are regarded by external actors as EU actions, the contributors focus onboth Pillar I and Pillar II policies, involving EU and member state actions, and material political actions and less material ones such as speech acts. Adopting a multidisciplinary perspective and drawing on political science, political economy, sociology, environmental science and women's studies this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of European studies and politics.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	xi
Notes on contributors	xii
Acknowledgements	xiii
List of abbreviations	xiv
1 Introduction	1	(18)
SONIA LUCARELLI
2 The constitutive nature of values, images and principles in the European Union	19	(23)
IAN MANNERS
3 Theoretical perspectives on the role of values, images and principles in foreign policy	42	(17)
KNUD ERIK JØRGENSEN
4 Values, science and the European Union	59	(18)
IAN WELSH
5 Environmental values and climate change policy	77	(20)
SUSAN BAKER
6 The European Union and the value of gender equality	97	(17)
ANDREA PETO AND IAN MANNERS
7 Principles of democracy and human rights	114	(16)
ROSA BALFOUR
8 Promoting human rights and democracy in European Union relations with Russia and China	130	(17)
STEFANIA PANEBIANCO
9 The use of force as coercive intervention	147	(17)
SONIA LUCARELLI AND ROBERTO MENOTTI
10 Values in European Union development cooperation policy	164	(21)
FEDERICO BONAGLIA, ANDREA GOLDSTEIN AND FABIO PETITO
11 European Union regulatory capitalism and multilateral trade negotiations	185	(16)
ADRIAN VAN DEN HOVEN
12 Conclusion	201	(15)
SONIA LUCARELLI AND IAN MANNERS
Bibliography	216	(25)
Index	241