Values and Principles in European Union Foreign Policy

✍ Scribed by Sonia Lucarelli, Ian Manners

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 273
• Series: Routledge advances in European politics; 37
• Edition: lst ed
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book presents a fresh examination ofВ the values and principles that inform EU foreign policy, exploring the implications of these values and principles on the construction of European Union identity today.

The authors show how current debates on European Union foreign policy and on European identity tend to be kept separated, as if the process of identity formation had only an internal dimension or it was not related to the external behaviour of an international actor. Conceiving EU foreign policy in its broadest context as a set of political actions that are regarded by external actors as ‘EU’ actions, the book focuses on both Pillar I and Pillar II policies, involving EU and member state actions and material political actions and less material ones such as speech acts.

Adopting a multidisciplinary perspective and drawing on political science, political economy, sociology, environmental science and women’s studies, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of European studies and politics.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Series-Title......Page 4
Title......Page 8
Copyright......Page 9
Contents......Page 10
Illsutrations......Page 12
Contributors......Page 13
Anknowledgements......Page 14
Abbreviations......Page 15
1 Introduction: Values, principles, identity and European union foreign policy......Page 18
2 The constitutive nature of values, images and principles in the European union......Page 36
3 Theoretical perspectives on the role of values, images and principles in foreign poilcy......Page 59
4 Values, science and the European union: Biotechnology and transatlantic relations......Page 76
5 Environmental values and climate change policy: Contrasting the European union and the united states......Page 94
6 The European union and the value of gender equality......Page 114
7 Principles of democracy and human rights: A review of the European union's strategies towards its neighbours......Page 131
8 Promoting human rights and democracy in European union relations with Russia and China......Page 147
9 The use of force as coercive intervention: The conflicting values of the European union's external action......Page 164
10 Values in European union developement cooperation policy......Page 181
11 European union regulatory capitalism and multilateral trade negotiations......Page 202
12 Conclusion: Valuing principles in European union foreign policy......Page 218
Bibliogarphy......Page 233
Index......Page 258