A Responsible Europe? Ethical Foundations of EU External Affairs

A Responsible Europe? opens a new avenue of research by reviewing the external affairs of the European Union from an explicitly normative perspective. The construction of the EU's global role should be morally and intellectually justified. We therefore need to ask: What ethical foundations, if any, might there be for developing the EU's role in the world? What should the EU do or not do in international arenas and, above all, why? The contributors to the book put forward a set of principles of responsibility towards other international actors and show how these principles can function as practical guidelines for the formulation of EU activities in selected international policy areas and regional cooperation frameworks. In addition to this new conceptual perspective, the book also shows how multidimensional and complex the EU's foreign policies have been and will continue to be.

List of Tables and Figures Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors List of Abbreviations Introduction; H.Vogt The Problem of Institutional Responsibility and the EU; A.Szigeti The EU's Responsibility for Global Security and Defence; H.Ojanen The Mutual, 'Shared' and 'Dual' Responsibility of the West: The EU and the US in a Sustainable Transatlantic Alliance; H.Mayer The EU as a Regional Power: Extended Governance and Historical Responsibility; K.Raik The EU, Russia and the Problem of Community; P.Aalto Assigning Duties in the Global System of Human Rights: The Role of the European Union; E.Jurado A 'Responsible' EU, Multinational Migration Regime and the Case of ASEM; R.Karatani Coping with Historical Responsibility: Trends and Images of the EU's Development Policy; H.Vogt The EU - A Responsible Trading Partner?; T.O'Shaughnessy Citizens' Perceptions of the EU as a Global Actor; J.Ekman Conclusion: The Global Responsibility of the EU: From Principles to Policy; H.Mayer & H.Vogt Index