Download or read book The European Union as a Global Actor from a Civilian Power to a Military Power written by Ricardo Santos and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The EU has come a long way to become a global actor able to intervene in diferent fields in the international scenario. Institutions and capacitities have been set up throughout the years and Member States are more and more comitted in surrendering national powers to EU institutions. In the process, the EU learnt from its own mistakes, especially in the Balkans. Today, we can asses that the EU no longer exerts soft power through diplomacy and trade, but It is able to act military in diferent part of the world for the sake of expanding peace and security.
Download or read book Civilian or Military Power written by Helene Sjursen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text critically examines the belief that the EU not only has an impact on the international system but also a ‘normative’, ‘civilian’ and ‘civilizing’ power. The contributors question whether this assertion fits with the empirical record or is merely based on anecdotal evidence and whether there is a theoretical basis for the expectation of a ‘normative’ or ‘civilizing’ power. Moving the research agenda forward, the book establishes criteria and assessment standards for examining the EU’s international role and its putative normative dimension. Such an endeavour is particularly important against the backdrop of recent developments in European security and defence. The acquisition of military means, or the EU’s ambition to acquire such means, might weaken at least the argument that the EU is a ‘civilian’ power and could provoke a shift towards a policy more akin to traditional ‘great powers.' This book was previously published as a special issue of the Journal of European Public Policy.
Download or read book Prosocial Power Europe written by Mihai Cristian Brasoveanu and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first decade of the twenty-first century saw the rapid development of the new European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) that also included a military dimension and thus embodied the emergence of the European Union (EU) as a military actor on the international scene. This phenomenon had a major impact on the literature concerned with understanding the international role of the EU. For some authors, the birth of the EU as a military actor looked like the beginning of the end for both 'civilian power Europe' and 'normative power Europe'. For others, the emergence of the EU as a military actor meant the birth of the EU as 'real power Europe' on the international scene.Using a different perspective, this thesis shows that the existing interpretations of the international implications of the EU's rise as a military actor missed the most significant aspect of this phenomenon because of their focus on means and the underlying assumption that means determine ends. This thesis uses the social scientific perspective developed by Alexander Wendt in the context of his social theory of international politics to argue that the rapid development of the EU as a military actor in the first decade of the twenty first century supported the transition of the international system from a Lockean security culture to a Kantian security culture. In contrast to a Lockean system, where military actors do not completely exclude the use of violence in the settlement of their disputes, in a Kantian system, military actors do not only exclude settling disputes by violence (the principle of non violence), but they also help each other in the event of an attack on any one by a third party (the principle of mutual assistance).The Wendtian perspective focuses on actors as the drivers of cultural continuity and change in the international system and sees the Kantian transition as the main challenge for the contemporary international system. The Kantian transition in turn depends on prosocial actors that act as friends in relation to the Other with respect to the use of violence. Accordingly, studying the emergence of the EU as a military actor in the light of the Wendtian perspective involves testing the EU against the model of the Wendtian prosocial actor. The analysis performed in this thesis shows that in its first ten years as an emerging military actor the EU behaved primarily as a prosocial actor and thus supported the Kantian transition in the international system.
Download or read book Europe A Civilian Power written by Mario Telò and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-11-29 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the European Union international role and identity becoming after the cold war, September 11th and the transatlantic rift? Is the second global actor challenging the trends towards a 'pax americana'? EUROPE: A CIVILIAN POWER? provides an original account of the features and the external relations of the EU as a civilian power in the making. It addresses the key questions on the new security threat, world emergencies challenging the EU, not only as a peace and democracy stablizer on a continental scale, but also as an actor which shares responsibility for global governance and world order. MARIO TELO provides a comparative analysis of regional cooperation in Europe, Africa, Asia and Latin America and focuses on the interregional relations with the EU. He highlights the international relevance of the current EU constitutionalization process and gives a critical review of the concepts of civilian power, soft power, civilizing power, multilateralism, multipolarism, international fragmentation, empire, hegemonic stability and global legitimacy. Analysis of the best literature on international relations and European integration is completed by MARIO's practical experience as an advisor to the EU institutions and a lecturer in Asia and Americas.
Download or read book Europe Strategy and Armed Forces written by Sven Biscop and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how the European Union can pursue a grand strategy and become a distinct global actor in a world of emerging great powers. At the grand strategic level, its sheer economic size makes the EU a global power. However, the EU needs to take into account that many international actors continue to measure power mostly by assessing military capability. To preserve its status as an economic power, therefore, the EU has to become a power across the board, which requires a grand strategy, and the means and the will to proactively pursue one. The authors of this book aim to demonstrate that the EU can develop a purposive yet distinctive grand strategy that preserves the value-based nature of EU external action while also safeguarding its vital economic interests. The book analyses the existing military capability of the European Union and its bottom-up nature, which results in a national-based focus in the member-states, impeding deployment capability. A systematic realignment of national defence planning at the strategic level will enable each member-states to focus its defence effort on the right capabilities, make maximal use of pooling and specialization, and contribute to multinational projects in order to address Europe’s strategic capability shortfalls. A stronger Europe will therefore result, it is argued, a real global actor, which can then become an equal strategic partner to the United States, leading to a revitalized Transatlantic partnership in turn. This book will be of interest to students of military studies, European Union policy, strategic studies and International Relations generally.
Download or read book From Civilian Power to SuperPower written by R. Whitman and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1998-04-30 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Civilian Power to Superpower? asserts that a new, distinctive and significant actor has entered the international system. The text explores how the European Union has become a significant international actor without transforming itself into a nation-state. The international context, within which the Union now operates, and the instruments, now available at its disposal, have undergone a convergence to create circumstances in which the relative significance of the Union and its uniqueness in the international system has been enhanced.
Download or read book The European Union as a Global Actor written by Charlotte Bretherton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-06-01 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Download or read book Toward a European Army written by Trevor C. Salmon and published by Lynne Rienner Publishers. This book was released on 2003 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive analysis of the European defence project: its origins, purpose, and goals.
Download or read book The European Union as a Global Actor written by Charlotte Bretherton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-03-15 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive, up to date and theoretically informed text examines the full range of the European Union's external relations including the Common Foreign and Security Policy. It look at the increasingly important part the EU plays in global politics. The authors argue that the EU's significance cannot be grasped by making comparisons with traditional states. Issues covered include: · the status, coherence, consistency and roles of the EU as an actor, and what being an actor means in practice. · how the field of trade relations forms the basis of the EUs activities · the EU in global environmental diplomacy, North-South relations and in relation to the Mediterranean and East/Central Europe · the EUs controversial relationship to the Common Foreign and Security Policy and defence.
Download or read book The European Union A Global Actor written by Sven Bernhard Gareis and published by Verlag Barbara Budrich. This book was released on 2012-12-07 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is the European Union a unified actor in world politics? The world’s leading economic power is still struggling to find its role in shaping and maintaining global peace, free trade and commerce. How successful is the EU ́s Common Foreign and Security Policy and its institutions really?
Download or read book Germany as a Civilian Power written by Sebastian Harnisch and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing upon a multi-disciplinary methodology employing diverse written sources, material practices and vivid life histories, Faith in the family seeks to assess the impact of the Second Vatican Council on the ordinary believer, alongside contemporaneous shifts in British society relating to social mobility, the sixties, sexual morality and secularisation. Chapters examine the changes in the Roman Catholic liturgy and Christology; devotion to Mary, the rosary and the place of women in the family and church, as well as the enduring (but shifting) popularity of Saints Bernadette and Thérèse.Appealing to students of modern British gender and cultural history, as well as a general readership interested in religious life in Britain in the second half of the twentieth century, Faith in the family illustrates that despite unmistakable differences in their cultural accoutrements and interpretations of Catholicism, English Catholics continued to identify with and practise the 'Faith of Our Fathers' before and after Vatican II.
Download or read book Global Power Transition and the Future of the European Union written by Birol A. Yeşilada and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-07-06 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, the European Union faces challenges that threaten not only internal cohesion but also its position in the global system. This book is about the future of the EU in the light of global power transition taking place in the twenty-first century and demonstrates how its future rests on a delicate balance between policy challenge, member states’ interests, and convergence or divergence of societal values across its peoples. The book examines factors behind the decline of the EU relative to the rise of China and other powers in the global hierarchy and what policy options are available for EU leaders to implement in order to compete as a global actor. It analyses determinants of regional integration and key policy challenges the EU faces in its quest for an "ever deeper union," and identifies significant factors (i.e., power relations, economic relations, emergent social values across the EU) that can explain the likelihood of further integration or conflict between EU member states. This text will be essential reading for scholars, students, and practitioners interested in European Union politics international relations, security studies, and comparative politics.
Download or read book Normative Power Europe written by R. Whitman and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-06-21 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The notion of Normative Power Europe (NPE) is that the EU is an 'ideational' actor characterised by common principles and acting to diffuse norms within international relations. Contributors assess the impact of NPE and offer new perspectives for the future exploration of one of the most widely used ideas in the study of the EU in the last decade.
Download or read book Managing a Multilevel Foreign Policy written by Paolo Foradori and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Managing a Multilevel Foreign Policy is a helpful resource for enhancing current understanding of the European Union as an emerging actor in the global system. It introduces and examines the latest developments in the fields of EU foreign, security, and defense policies, providing a complete overview of the ways in which the EU has grown as a global actor with a significant impact on international affairs.
Download or read book Democracy Promotion and the Normative Power Europe Framework written by Marek Neuman and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-07-20 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a topical, holistic assessment of the European Union’s democracy promotion in South-East Europe, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia, analyzed through the prism of the Normative Power Europe (NPE) framework of transnational policy formation. To do so, it brings together three scholarly domains that traditionally stand apart and are discussed separately. The first addresses the notion of the European Union conducting a normatively-driven foreign policy both near and far abroad. The second is concerned with the legitimacy, operationality, and effectiveness of promoting democracy in third-world countries. The third addresses the quality of the relationship the European Union has been able to establish with some vital – yet often troubled – countries in South-East Europe, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia. Finally, based on the empirical findings presented in each chapter, this volume concludes by rethinking the concept and relevance of NPE to the field’s understanding of the EU’s foreign policy making. This edited volume offers the reader both a theoretically and empirically rich analysis of the European Union’s efforts to promote democracy abroad. As such is scholars and students of EU studies, particularly EU foreign policy, as well as policy makers at EU and national level and civil society representatives responsible for designing/implementing democracy promoting projects on the ground.
Download or read book The Emerging Principalship written by Linda Skrla and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book makes a distinction between the "principal" - the man or woman who occupies the position - and the "principal ship", the entire leadership function which, although overseen and coordinated by the principal, also includes activities of assistant principals, teachers, counsellors, and others. It explains and applies the 21 domains recommended by the National Policy Board and demonstrates how they relate to the ISLLC standards.
Download or read book International Relations of the European Union written by Wyn Rees and published by SAGE Publications Limited. This book was released on 2008-07-15 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This SLIR set will reflect the breadth of the EU's international activities (trade, security, defence, diplomacy, etc) in addition to covering the history of the EUs external relations. The EU is a particularly vibrant area of study as well as a major case study for students of International Relations.
