Mario Telò - The Eus Foreign Policy: What Kind of Power and Diplomatic Action?

THE EUS FOREIGN POLICY

Commentators have often projected their own hopes and fears onto the EU and its Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP). Does the EU, in its foreign policy aspects, represent a post-modern world of persuasion and public-spirited action or is it just a hapless would-be state that has to appeal to the United States, as in Bosnia and Libya, to act effectively? The contributors to The EUs Foreign Policy from Europe and the three most important Asian countries reject this simplistic dichotomy, exploring how EU policy actually functions and describing its contributions to modifications in the structure of world politics. How the influence of the EU can be maintained despite financial crisis and long-term recession, and increasing German dominance, remains a major question, not resolved but illuminated by this thoughtful volume.

Robert O. Keohane, Princeton University, USA

The EUs Foreign Policy is a welcome addition to the literature on EU foreign policy, as it critically assesses the changes that have been implemented since the Lisbon Treaty entered into force, and considers the EUs influence in the increasingly multipolar world of the 21st century. The contributors are all highly respected experts, and include academics from well beyond the EUs borders. Highly recommended.

Karen E. Smith, London School of Economics, UK

Kalypso Nikolaidis, St Anthonys College, University of Oxford, UK

Institutionally supported by the Institute for European Studies at the Universit libre de Bruxelles

Mario TEL, Series editor (mtelo@ulb.ac.be)

Salma BAVA, JNU, New Dehli
Shaun BRESLIN, University of Warwick
Andrew GAMBLE, Cambridge Un.
Peter KATZENSTEIN, Cornell Un.
Robert O. KEOHANE, Princeton Un.
Christian LEQUESNE, CERI, Paris
Leonardo MORLINO, LUISS, Rome
Ben ROSAMOND, Copenhagen Un.
Vivien SCHMIDT Boston Un.
Karen SMITH, LSE
Jan ZIELONKA, Oxford Un.
Michael ZRN, WZB, Berlin
ZHU Liqun, Beijin, CFAU, Beijin

Frederik PONJAERT, ULB, Series manager (fponjaer@ulb.ac.be)

The Institut dEtudes Europennes de lUniversit Libre de Bruxelles (IEE-ULB) is a leading research institution, with a large global collaborative university network. As part of successful research consortia, the IEE-ULB was awarded two EU funded programmes. The first is an international multidisciplinary doctoral program in Globalisation, Europe, Multilateralism funded by the DG Culture and Education EU Commission. Over a seven year period, this programme will fund up to 50 PhD students as well as hosting PhD school seminars on every continent. The second programme is GR:EEN (Global Reordering: Evolving European Networks), funded by DG research EU Commission. This is an integrated research project including 16 universities on five continents. The remarkable quality of these senior and junior scholars included in the project allows extensive research both in EU studies and in global governance. Volumes in this series share innovative research objectives around Globalisation, the EUs evolution within it, the changing Multilateral cooperation, and the role of transnational networks; emergent multipolarity and international order; comparative regionalism and interregionalism; EUs foreign policy and external relations.

The series includes collaborative volumes, research based monographs and textbooks with the aim of contributing to the innovation of European Integration and International studies. Every book is reviewed by an international referees process, scientific workshops discussing the first drafts, anonymous referees and advice by the International editorial board members.

What Kind of Power and Diplomatic Action?

MARIO TEL
Universit Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

FREDERIK PONJAERT
Universit Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

First published 2013 by Ashgate Publishing

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
The EUs foreign policy : what kind of power and diplomatic action?. -- (Globalisation, Europe, multilateralism series; v. 1)

1. European Union. 2. European Union countries--Foreign relations--21st century. 3. Constitutional law--European Union countries. 4. Treaty on European Union (1992). Protocols, etc., 2007 Dec. 13.
I. Series II. Tel, Mario. III. Ponjaert, Frederik.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
The EUs foreign policy : what kind of power and diplomatic action? / [edited] by Mario Tel and Frederik Ponjaert.

pages cm. -- (Globalisation, Europe, multilateralism series)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-4094-6451-8 (hbk) 1. European Union countries--Foreign relations. I. Tel, Mario, editor of compilation. II. Ponjaert, Frederik, editor of compilation.

JZ1570.A5.E97145 2013

341.242'2--dc23

2012038187

ISBN 9781409464518 (hbk)
ISBN 9781409464525 (pbk)
ISBN 9781315558448 (ebk)

Ummu Salma Bava is Director, Europe Area Studies Programme, Centre for European Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India and a guest faculty at the Foreign Service Institute, Ministry of External Affairs (New Delhi) and Associate Fellow, Asia Society (New York). One of the leading experts in India on contemporary European and Indian foreign and security policy, she was recently conferred with the prestigious Bundesverdienstkreuz (Order of Merit) by the German President.