1st Edition
The EU's Role in World Politics A Retreat from Liberal Internationalism
By Richard Youngs
Copyright 2010
200 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
Also available as eBook on:
Debates on EU foreign policy have been dominated by two opposing schools of argument. One includes a broad range of work that extols the virtues of a European liberal concept of power and the other sees the EU’s commitment to cosmopolitan liberalism and soft power as a sign of weakness rather than strength.
This book judges the EU on its own terms as a liberal power, examining its policy... Read more
1. Introduction 2. Economic Liberalism and the Financial Crisis 3. Multilateralism and the Emerging World Order 4. Security and Counter-Terrorism 5. Human Rights and Democracy 6. States in Conflict 7. Combating Third World poverty 8. Energy security and Climate Change 9. Europe’s Global Future: The Pragmatic Cosmopolitan
Biography
Richard Youngs is Director of FRIDE in Madrid and Associate Professor at the University of Warwick.
