Michèle Knodt and Sebastian Princen: Understanding the European Union's External Relations

	Michèle Knodt and Sebastian Princen
	Understanding the European Union's External Relations
	Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science

	221 S., London and New York, Routledge, 2003
	ISBN 0-415-29697-8

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Contents

Notes on Contributors

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.

	List of illustrations
	Notes on contributors
	Series editor's preface
	Preface
	Acknowledgements

Introduction:	Puzzles and prospects in theorizing the EU's external relations MICHÈLE KNODT AND SEBASTIAAN PRINCEN

PART I	The development of the EU's external role: Between co-operation and fragmentation
1	A fragmented external role: the EU, defence policy, and New Atlanticism STEN RYNNING
2	Understanding the common foreign and security policy: analytical building blocks HELENE SJURSEN
3	What game? By which rules? Adaptation and flexibility in the EC's foreign economic policy ALASDAIR R. YOUNG

PART II	Internal decision-making on external policies: The challenges of multiple levels and multiple pillars
4	Framing an American threat: the European Commission and the technology gap ULRIKA MÖRTH
5	European external relations fields: the multi-pillar issue of economic sanctions against Serbia YVES BUCHET DE NEUILLY
6	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

PART III	Promoting European norms, values and ideas: The EU as an exporter of models
7	Exporting `values'? EU external cooperation as a `soft diplomacy' FRANCK PETITEVILLE
8	Exporting regulatory standards: the cases of trapping and data protection SEBASTIAAN PRINCEN
9	The export of the fight against organized crime policy model and the EU's international actorness FRANCESCA LONGO
10	A challenge for the commons: EU fisheries management in international arenas MARTA A. BALLESTEROS

PART IV	Conclusion
11	Understanding the EU's external relations: the move from actors to processes SEBASTIAAN PRINCEN AND MICHELE KNOW

	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.