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The External Action of the European Union - Concepts, Approaches, Theories

The External Action of the European Union - Concepts, Approaches, Theories

GSTOHL Sieglinde , SCHUNZ Simon

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This groundbreaking new textbook offers extensive coverage of EU External Action studies, from its major concepts to the key theories in the field. Over the past decades, the European Union has progressively developed into a significant global actor in an increasing number of policy fields. This long-awaited volume looks into different ways of conceptualizing the EU as a global actor, the processes and impact of EU external action, explanations offered by IR and integration theories, the discursive, normative, practice and gender ‘turns’, and the ‘decentring agenda’ for EU external action. The book offers a reader-friendly guidance on these various ways in which to study the EU as a global actor: each chapter introduces one concept, approach or theory and illustrates its application by a case study of EU external action. In drawing the different perspectives together, the book underscores that ‘EU External Action Studies’ is becoming an academic speciality in its own right. 

Written by leading experts, the volume will make essential reading for students, scholars and practitioners of EU external action.
EU External Action Studies nowadays attract attention from scholars and students in International Relations (IR), Foreign Policy Analysis and (interdisciplinary) EU Studies, as well as from practitioners.

Table of contents

Introduction
1. The history of European Union external action and its study - Sieglinde Gstöhl and Simon Schunz
Part I – Conceptualizing the EU as a global actor
2. Actorness and the study of the EU’s external action - Edith Drieskens
3. Role theory and the study of leadership in EU external action - Lisbeth Aggestam
4. The European Union as ‘Market Power Europe’ - Chad Damro
5. Normative Power Approach to European Union external action - Ian Manners
Part II – Analysing processes and impact of EU external action
6. Conceptualizing coherence in EU external action - Clara Portela
7. The EU in international negotiations: three-level game and principal-agent approaches - Sieglinde Gstöhl
8. EU external governance and Europeanization - Frank Schimmelfennig
9. Analysing the effectiveness of European Union external action - Simon Schunz
Part III – Explaining EU external action with IR and integration theories
10. EU external action from a realist perspective - Adrian Hyde-Price
11.Theorizing EU external action: a neo-functionalist perspective - Arne Niemann and Julian Bergmann. – 12. A liberal intergovernmentalist approach to EU external action - Andrew Moravcsik and Cassandra Emmons
13. Constructivism and the role of the ‘Other’ in EU external action - Bahar Rumelili
Part IV – Turns in the social sciences and their repercussions for the study of EU external action.-  14. Discourse analytical approaches and the study of EU external action - Caterina Carta
15. Analysing EU external action through the lens of global justice theory - Helene Sjursen and Joachim Vigrestad
16. The ‘practice turn’ in EU external action studies - Federica Bicchi
17. Gendering EU external action: feminist insights - Roberta Guerrina
Part V – Decentring EU external action: overcoming EU-centrism with outside perspectives
18. Theorizing external perceptions of the EU - Natalia Chaban and Ole Elgström
19. The decentring agenda: a post-colonial approach to EU external action - Nora Fisher-Onar and Kalypso Nicolaïdis
20. Decentring European Foreign Policy Analysis - Stephan Keukeleire and Sharon Lecocq
Conclusion: European Union External Action Studies – the way forward - Sieglinde Gstöhl and Simon Schunz.