1st Edition

The EU in a Globalized World

206 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

206 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

206 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book fosters critical reflection on Europe's place in a fast-changing global environment, covering the soft and hard facets of EU power along the spectrum of low politics–high politics. Taking an innovative case-study approach, it provides a wide understanding of European Studies and International Relations beyond classical power considerations and addresses the crossroads of the two... Read more

Introduction

Thomas Hoerber, Alexandre Bohas and Stefano Valdemarin

1. EU–Russia Relations and the Ukraine Conflict

Marco Siddi

2. Transatlantic Relations Now and Then: In Search of a Balance between "America First" and "America Is Back"

Anna Dimitrova

3. Everything but Arms: The European Commission and Its Geopolitical Discourse on Preferential Trade for "the Most In Need"

Antonio Salvador M. Alcazar III

4. The EU in the Nuclear Iranian Case: Its Role in the Negotiations and its Significance within International Relations Theories

Pierre-Marie Vague

5. Between Low Politics and Soft Power: EU’s Inter-regional Relations with Mercosur

Bruno Theodore Luciano and Cairo Gabriel Borges Junqueira

6. Institutional Process and Dispute Negotiations: An International Relations/International Law Approach of EU’s Relations with North Macedonia

Ioanna Bantouna

7. European Monetary Policy in a Globalized World: From Low to High Politics

Jürgen Kaehler and Christoph Weber

8. What Type of Actor? The EU’s Strategy for Cooperation in the Indo-Pacific

Gorana Grgić

9. How to Use Paradiplomacy in the EU Foreign Policymaking? Opportunities, Mechanisms, Limitations

Tomasz Kamiński and Joanna Ciesielska-Klikowska

10. Beyond the Dichotomy of Hard and Soft Power: A Case Study of the EU's Naval Engagement in the Indo-Pacific Region

Gao Xinchuchu and Chen Xuechen

Conclusion

Stefano Valdemarin, Alexandre Bohas and Thomas Hoerber

Biography

Thomas Hoerber is Professor for European Studies and holds a Jean Monnet Chair in European Studies. He directs the EU*Asia Institute at ESSCA School of Management (Angers), France.

Alexandre Bohas is Professor in International Affairs at ESSCA School of Management on the Aix-en-Provence campus and a research associate at CERGAM, Aix-Marseille Université, France.

Stefano Valdemarin is Associate Professor in International Business and Strategy at ESSCA School of Management (Lyon) and holds a PhD in Management Sciences from the University of Lyon, France.