Cover
Contents
List of Abbreviations
Preface
Theory formation at the intersection of international relations and European integration studies
1.1. A brief history of the EU’s external relations
1.2. Approaches within the field of international relations
1.3. European integration theories
1.4. Conclusion
Suggestions for further reading
Factors and actors
2.1. The study of foreign policy
2.2. The EU as an actor in the world: internal power and external power
2.3. Conclusion
Suggestions for further reading
3. The European Union’s trade policy
3.1. The EU as a power factor (and actor) in international relations
3.1.1. The remarkable renaissance of the superpower thesis
3.1.2. The proliferation of adjectives: power as a grab bag
3.2. EU trade policy
3.2.1. The EU as a trading state and as an external power: who are the principals and who are the agents?
3.2.2. The partnership between the European Commission and European business: commercial internationalism explained
3.3. Case study I: the TTIP as a source of (trans)national conflict
3.4. Case study II: the Common Agricultural Policy and the Janus face of the EU
3.5. Conclusion
Suggestions for further reading
4. Decolonisation and enlargement: The European Union’s development policy
4.1. A brief history of the EU’s development policy
4.2. The most important characteristics of EU development policy since the Cotonou Treaty (2000)
4.2.1. The development of development theory: From hope to nihilism?
4.2.2. Trade and aid: Two sides of the same coin?
4.3. EU actorness and the position of development policy in EU external relations: Challenges or contradictions?
4.4. Conclusion
Suggestions for further reading
5. The end of the Cold War, the enlargement strategy, and the European Union’s Neighbourhood Policy
5.1. Deepening or widening, enlargement and disintegration?
5.1.1. Previous enlargement rounds and the dynamics of deeper integration
5.1.2. Big bang enlargement in comparative perspective
5.2. The EU as transformative power?
5.3. Beyond big bang enlargement: dilemmas of a larger Europe
5.3.1. Enlargement and Euroscepticism: incompatible quantities?
5.3.2. Beyond conditionality: the spectre of populism
5.3.3. Enlargement as security strategy: the EU and the Western Balkans
5.4. The new neighbours as friends: the Neighbourhood Policy
5.5. Conclusion
Suggestions for further reading
Security in a liberal and multipolar world order
6.1. European integration and Atlantic security during the Cold War
6.2. The trans-Atlantic impasse: EU-US relations after the Cold War
6.2.1. Hegemonic stability under fire
6.2.2. Towards a post-American Europe?
6.3. New security threats and old reflexes
6.4. European security and defence policy
6.4.1. A brief history of the CSDP
6.4.2. The Global Strategy of the European Union and the CSDP
6.4.3. Factors and actors
6.5. Towards a multipolar world? Changing power relations in the international system
6.6. Conclusion
Suggestions for further reading
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index