“As Michel Foucault has famously stated,'knowledge is not made for understanding; it is
made for cutting'. In this spirit The Edkins–Vaughan-Williams Interventions series solicits …

The European Union is increasingly being asked to manage crises inside and outside the
Union. From terrorist attacks to financial crises, and natural disasters to international …

This major new text provides a uniquely broad ranging introduction to, and assessment of
the contribution of, the whole range of theoretical approaches that have been applied to the …

Abstract The concept of 'Normative Power Europe'(NPE) has become very popular for
analysing the foreign policy and external relations of the European Union (EU). There is …

The officially declared aim of relations is strategic partnership. However, the current
conceptual vacuum and level of competition, and even rivalry, means that... this aim cannot …

The goal of this Special Issue is to improve our conceptualisation and empirical
understanding of EU actorness and effectiveness in International Relations. While the …

This contribution proposes a decentred conceptualization of European Union (EU)
international influence based on the external ramifications of its internal policies. It views the …

In recent years a series of crises have erupted on the European Union's eastern borders.
Russia's annexation of Crimea and the subsequent conflict in eastern Ukraine presented the …

The mythology of the European Union (EU) in world politics can be told and untold in many
different ways. This article focuses on the lore or stories of who did what to whom, the …

This concluding article assesses the past decade of international scholarship on the
European Union (EU) and normative power as represented by the contributions to the …