Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science
Edited by Jan W.van Deth
University of Mannheim, Germany on behalf of the European Consortium for Political Research
The Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science series is published in association with the European Consortium for Political Researchthe leading organization concerned with the growth and development of political science in Europe. The series presents high-quality edited volumes on topics at the leading edge of current interest in political science and related fields, with contributions from European scholars and others who have presented work at ECPR workshops or research groups.
1 Regionalist Parties in Western Europe
Edited by Lieven de Winter and Huri Trsan
2 Comparing Party System Change
Edited by Jan-Erik Lane and Paul Pennings
3 Political Theory and European Union
Edited by Albert Weale and Michael Nentwich
4 Politics of Sexuality
Edited by Terrell Carver and Vronique Mottier
5 Autonomous Policy Making by International Organizations
Edited by Bob Reinalda and Bertjan Verbeek
6 Social Capital and European Democracy
Edited by Jan W.van Deth, Marco Maraffi, Ken Newton and Paul Whiteley
7 Party Elites in Divided Societies
Edited by Kurt Richard Luther and Kris Deschouwer
8 Citizenship and Welfare State Reform in Europe
Edited by Jet Bussemaker
9 Democratic Governance and New Technology
Technologically mediated innovations in political practice in Western Europe Edited by Ivan Horrocks, Jens Hoff and Pieter Tops
10 Democracy without Borders
Transnationalisation and conditionality in new democracies Edited by Jean Grugel
11 Cultural Theory as Political Science
Edited by Michael Thompson, Gunnar Grendstad and Per Selle
12 The Transformation of Governance in the European Union
Edited by Beate Kohler-Koch and Rainer Eising
13 Parliamentary Party Groups in European Democracies
Political parties behind closed doors
Edited by Knut Heidar and Ruud Koole
14 Survival of the European Welfare State
Edited by Stein Kuhnle
15 Private Organisations in Global Politics
Edited by Karsten Ronit and Volker Schneider
16 Federalism and Political Performance
Edited by Ute Wachendorfer-Schmidt
17 Democratic Innovation
Deliberation, representation and association
Edited by Michael Saward
18 Public Opinion and the International Use of Force
Edited by Philip Everts and Pierangelo Isernia
19 Religion and Mass Electoral Behaviour in Europe
Edited by David Broughton and Hans-Martien ten Napel
20 Estimating the Policy Position of Political Actors
Edited by Michael Laver
21 Democracy and Political Change in the Third World
Edited by Jeff Haynes
22 Politicians, Bureaucrats and Administrative Reform
Edited by B.Guy Peters and Jon Pierre
23 Social Capital and Participation in Everyday Life
Edited by Paul Dekker and Eric M.Uslaner
24 Development and Democracy
What do we know and how?
Edited by Ole Elgstrm and Goran Hyden
25 Do Political Campaigns Matter?
Campaign effects in elections and referendums
Edited by David M.Farrell and Rdiger Schmitt-Beck
26 Political Journalism
New challenges, new practices
Edited by Raymond Kuhn and Erik Neveu
27 Economic Voting
Edited by Han Dorussen and Michaell Taylor
28 Organised Crime and the Challenge to Democracy
Edited by Felia Allum and Renate Siebert
29 Understanding the European Unions External Relations
Edited by Michle Knodt and Sebastiaan Princen
Also available from Routledge in association with the ECPR:
Sex Equality in Western Europe,Edited by Frances Gardiner; Democracy and Green Political Thought, Edited by Brian Doherty and Marius de Geus; The New Politics of Unemployment, Edited by Hugh Compston; Citizenship, Democracy and Justice in the New Europe, Edited by Percy B.Lehning and Albert Weale; Private Groups and Public Life, Edited by Jan W.van Deth; The Political Context of Collective Action, Edited by Ricca Edmondson; Theories of Secession, Edited by Percy Lehning; Regionalism Across the North/South Divide, Edited by Jean Grugel and Wil Hout
Understanding the European Unions External Relations
The European Union is one of the worlds biggest economies. However, its role as an international actor is ambiguous and it is 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 Unionthe European Community and its legislation, the Common Foreign and Security Policy, and Justice and Home Affairs. In doing so they unravel the dynamics that led to EU co-operation on external policies, the internal decision-making on external policies and the effects these policies have on other countries and the international arena.
This book systematically links the European Unions 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.
Michle Knodt is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Mannheim and director of a research project based at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research. Sebastiaan Princen is working as a postdoctoral researcher at the Utrecht School of Governance at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands.
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