Understanding the European Union's external relations / / edited by Michele Knodt and Sebastiaan Princen

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910811258603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2003
• ISBN: 1-134-43340-9; 0-203-39196-9; 1-134-43341-7; 1-280-05895-1; 0-203-39144-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (243 p.)
• Collana: Routledge/ECPR studies in European political science ; ; 29
• Classificazione: 89.90
• Altri autori (Persone): KnodtMichele; PrincenSebastiaan
• Disciplina: 341.242/2
• Soggetti: European Union countries Foreign relations; European Union countries Politics and government
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction : puzzles and prospects in theorizing the EU's external relations / Michèle Knodt, Sebastiaan Princen -- A fragmented external role : the EU, defence policy, and new atlanticism / Sten Rynning -- Understanding the common foreign and security policy : analytical building blocks / Helene Sjursen -- What game, by which rules : adaptation and flexibility in the EC's foreign economic policy / Alasdair R. Young -- Framing and American threat : the European Commission and the technology gap / Ulrika Mörth -- European external relations fields : the multi-pillar issue of economic sanctions against Serbia / Yves Buchet de Neuilly -- Negotiating when others are watching : explaining the outcomes of the association negotiations between the European community and the countries of central and eastern Europe, 1990-1991 / Dimitris Papadimitriou -- Exporting values : EU external co-operation as a soft diplomacy / Franck Petiteville -- Exporting regulatory standards : the cases of trapping and data protection / Sebastiaan Princen -- The export of the fight against organized crime policy model and the EU's international actorness / Francesca Longo -- ; A challenge for the commons : EU fisheries management in international arenas / Marta A. Ballesteros -- Understanding the EU's external relations : the move from actors to processes / Sebastiaan Princen, Michèle Knodt.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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. This book systematically links the EU'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