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Michèle Knodt and Sebastian Princen |
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Understanding the European Union's External Relations |
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Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science |
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221 S., London and New York, Routledge, 2003 |
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ISBN 0-415-29697-8 |
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Abstract
The development of an increasingly important and 'assertive' EU in the world
arena, coupled with the EU's distinct and in many ways unique characteristics, poses interesting
puzzles, not only for policy-makers but also for students of European integration and international
relations. It challenges the image of the EU as a predominantly internal project aimed at economic
integration, as well as theories of international relations based on unitary state actors as the
main units of analysis. As a result, the EU's external relations have proven to be a fertile area
of investigation for political scientists. At the same time, it has proven difficult to formulate
adequate theories of the EU as an international actor. Whereas the EU's distinctive features have
received ample attention, the attempts to link the EU's role and character to more general theories
of international relations are still at their earliest stages. The book aims to contribute to
the understanding of the EU's external relations in two ways. First, the book will link issues in
the EU's external relations to existing political science theories. Second, the book will cover the
EU's external relations in all three pillars. It will thus bring together debates from the
literature on the CFSP and first pillar policies, as well as include a discussion of external
policies under the third pillar (Justice and Home Affairs). Moreover, a number of chapters will
deal explicitly with issues that fall under more than one pillar and focus on 'multipillar'
processes. This book resulted from our workshop "Understanding the EU's International
Presence", held at the ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops, March 2001 in Grenoble.
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List of illustrations |
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Notes on contributors |
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Series editor's preface |
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Preface |
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Acknowledgements |
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Introduction: |
Puzzles and prospects in theorizing
the EU's external relations MICHÈLE KNODT AND SEBASTIAAN PRINCEN |
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PART I |
The development of the EU's
external role: Between co-operation and fragmentation |
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A fragmented external role: the EU,
defence policy, and New Atlanticism STEN RYNNING |
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Understanding the common foreign and
security policy: analytical building blocks HELENE SJURSEN |
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What game? By which rules? Adaptation
and flexibility in the EC's foreign economic policy ALASDAIR R. YOUNG |
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PART II |
Internal decision-making on
external policies: The challenges of multiple levels and multiple pillars |
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Framing an American threat: the
European Commission and the technology gap ULRIKA MÖRTH |
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European external relations fields: the
multi-pillar issue of economic sanctions against Serbia YVES BUCHET DE NEUILLY |
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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 DIMITRIS PAPADIMITRIOU |
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PART III |
Promoting European norms, values and
ideas: The EU as an exporter of models |
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Exporting `values'? EU external
cooperation as a `soft diplomacy' FRANCK PETITEVILLE |
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Exporting regulatory standards: the
cases of trapping and data protection SEBASTIAAN PRINCEN |
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The export of the fight against
organized crime policy model and the EU's international actorness FRANCESCA LONGO |
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A challenge for the commons: EU
fisheries management in international arenas MARTA A. BALLESTEROS |
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PART IV |
Conclusion |
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Understanding the EU's external
relations: the move from actors to processes SEBASTIAAN PRINCEN AND MICHELE KNOW |
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Index |
Notes on Contributors
Marta A. Ballesteros is researcher at the Departamento de
Ciencia Politica y de la Administraci6n, Facultad de Ciencias Politicas e Sociais, Universidad de
Santiago de Compostela. Area of work or area of specialization: Fisheries management; Common Pool
Resource management in the European Union. |
Yves Buchet de Neuilly is Maitre de conference (Senior
lecturer) at the University of Lille II, France. He is working on the institutionalization process
of EU external action. |
Michèle Knodt is Assistant Professor at the Chair
of Political Science II, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Mannheim. In addition she is
directing the research project `Governance in an expanded multi-level system' at the Mannheim
Centre for European Social Research (MZES) and is head of the Research Area 5 (International
Embeddedness of European Governance) within Department B of the MZES. Her main research areas are
the external relations of the EU and general questions of governance in the EU. |
Francesca Longo is Professor of EU Politics, Faculty of
Political Science, University of Catania. Her main research areas: Theories of European Union,
Internal security policy of European Union. |
Ulrika Mörth is an Associate Professor in Political
Science in the Department of Political Science, Stockholm University and also researches at the
Stockholm Centre for Organizational Research (SCORE) at the same University in Sweden. Her main
research area is European politics. |
Dimitris Papadimitriou is a Research Fellow at the
European Institute of the London School of Economics. |
Franck Petiteville is Maitre de conferences de science
politique (Senior lecturer) at the Universite de Paris V-Rene Descartes Chercheur associe au CERI
(Associate Researcher at the Centre d'Etudes des Relations Internationales, Paris). His research
areas are the external economic relations of the EU, EU trade policy, regulation of globalization
and WTO. |
Sebastiaan Princen is working as a postdoctoral researcher
at the Utrecht School of Governance, University of Utrecht (The Netherlands). He has studied the
effects of trade measures on domestic regulatory standards in fields like environmental policy and
consumer protection. |
Sten Rynning is Associate Professor at the Institute for
Political Science, University of Southern Denmark. His research areas are the theories of Security
and International Relations; Strategy and Civil-Military Relations; the EU's CFSP and ESDP; NATO
and Transatlantic Relations. |
Helene Sjursen is Senior Researcher at ARENA, University
of Oslo. Her research areas are the European foreign and security policy and EU enlargement. |
Alasdair R. Young is a lecturer in the Department of
Politics at the University of Glasgow. His teaching and research focus on the interaction between
trade and regulatory policies and politics, with particular reference to the European Union. |
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