1st Edition

Values and Principles in European Union Foreign Policy

Edited By Sonia Lucarelli, Ian Manners Copyright 2006
    270 Pages
    by Routledge

    270 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    This book presents a fresh examination of 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.

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    Contributors

    Acknowledgements

    List of charts, figures and tables

    1 Introduction: values, principles, identity and European Union foreign policy

    SONIA LUCARELLI

    2 The constitutive nature of values, images and principles in the European Union

    IAN MANNERS

    1. Theoretical perspectives on the role of values, images and principles in foreign policy

    KNUD ERIK JØRGENSEN

    4 Values, science and the European Union: bio-technology and transatlantic relations

    IAN WELSH

    5 Environmental values and climate change: contrasting the European Union with the United States

    SUSAN BAKER

    6 The European Union and the value of gender equality

    ANDREA PETO AND IAN MANNERS

    7 Principles of democracy and human rights: a review of the European Union’s strategies towards its neighbours

    ROSA BALFOUR

    8 Promoting human rights and democracy in European Union relations with Russia and China

    STEFANIA PANEBIANCO

    1. The use of force as coercive intervention: the conflicting values of the European Union’s external action
    2. SONIA LUCARELLI AND ROBERTO MENOTTI

    3. Values in European Union development cooperation policy
    4. FEDERICO BONAGLIA, ANDREA GOLDSTEIN AND FABIO PETITO

    5. European Union regulatory capitalism and multilateral trade negotiations

    ADRIAN VAN DER HOVEN

    12 Conclusion: valuing principles in European Union foreign policy

    SONIA LUCARELLI AND IAN MANNERS

    Bibliography

    Index

    Biography

    Sonia Lucarelli, Ian Manners