After years of collective fascination with the idea of the EU as a 'special'global actor, some
scholars have started to investigate whether such a perception of distinctiveness is shared …

Keukeleire and Delreux demonstrate the scope and diversity of the European Union's
foreign policy, showing that EU foreign policy is broader than the Common Foreign and …

The aim in this contribution is to amplify the call, articulated across a range of disciplines
relevant to international politics, for a paradigm shift that decentres the study and practice of …

In research on E uropean foreign policy two important axes of debate have been running
relatively independently of each other for more than a decade: the study of the E uropean U …

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

The paper reviews literature on perception within the international relations and the
European Union (EU) studies in order to find out whether and how this concept can help us …

Since the early 2000s, the “local turn” has thoroughly transformed the field of peacebuilding.
The European Union (EU) policy discourse on peacebuilding has also aligned with this …

This article systematically investigates both regional and issue‐specific variation in external
perceptions of the E uropean U nion (EU) as a global power and an international leader …

The European Union (EU) is a key partner for African regional organizations and a major
promoter of economic and political integration in the region. Several studies have …

Eurocentrism in the analysis of European foreign policy often renders scholars blind to other
world views and realities, although engaging with these may be critical for understanding …