The European Union (EU) is influential in environmental politics and policy-making across
its 28 member states, around its periphery, and globally. Building on a diverse analytical and …

The awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize 2012 to the EU (European Union) came as a
surprise. Not only was the eurozone economic crisis undermining both policy effectiveness …

Empirical developments and scholarly attention in European Union (EU) external relations
have experienced considerable advances over the last decade. Nowhere is this more …

The article argues that dissident voices which attempt to theorise Europe differently and
advocate another European trajectory have been largely excluded and left unheard in …

Abstract The EU (European Union) and China are the two arguably most unusual powers in
today's world: the EU as the most integrated regional association of states and China as the …

The debate on NPE (Normative Power Europe) has flourished for more than a decade. NPE
has shaped Africa–EU relations considerably, especially since the founding of the AU …

Abstract The European Union is best understood as a liberal power–as an actor that is
composed of liberal democracies whose interests, identities and institutions motivate and …

The research on the 'normative power Europe'has uncovered the rationale and mechanisms
behind the export of EU norms, yet without a deeper understanding of how and why the EU …

The lead intervention article argues that the new reality of the planetary organic crisis awaits
a normative critical social theory of planetary politics, a means of understanding the sharing …

Using a framework of norm diffusion to determine the EU's international actorness in the
context of its relations with ASEAN, this book provides a timely and in-depth analysis of EU …