Understanding the European Union's External Relations

Herausgeber: Knodt, Michèle; Princen, Sebastiaan

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The European Union is one of the world's biggest economies. However, its role as an international actor is ambiguous and it's not always able to transform its political power into effective external policies. The development of an 'assertive' European Union challenges the image of an internal project aimed at economic integration and international relations theories based on unitary state actors. The contributors explore a wide range of issues and policy areas in all three pillars of the Union This book systematically links the European Union'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. It will appeal to students and researchers of the EU as well as those with a general interest in political science discourse. Marta Ballesteros, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain Yves Buchet de Neuilly, University of Lille II, France Michele Knodt, University of Mannheim, Germany Fr

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. April 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 242mm x 161mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780415296977
• ISBN-10: 0415296978
• Artikelnr.: 22100154

Autorenporträt

Michèle Knodt is a postdoctoral researcher at the Utrecht School of Governance , University of Utrecht, The Netherlands. Sebastiaan Princen is working as a researcher at the Netherlands Economic Institute (NEI) in Rotterdam.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I
The development of the EU's external role: between co
operation and fragmentation Part II
Internal decision making on external policies: the challenges of multiple levels and multiple pillars Part III
Promoting European norms, values and ideas
the EU as an exporter of models Part IV
Conclusion