European Structural Power on the Wane? EU Foreign Policy between External and Internal Challenges
Abstract
The European Union’s (EU) foreign policy software
needs updating: it appears to be increasingly out of
sync with the operating system of international politics.
At the turn of the millennium, many had hoped
that the EU’s internal model and institutional nature
– as a transnational multilateral governance platform
based on international law and soft power – would
make it well prepared for, and even a potential leader
in, the world to come (Howorth, 2010). Yet, postmodern
Europe has not seen the advent of the kind
of post-Westphalian international system it had hoped
for. Instead, the EU finds itself rather ill-equipped in
the new era of great-power competition. Its distinctive
approach to foreign policy, which has mainly
consisted in the export of democratic governance
and economic standards, is increasingly under strain
at a time where it is both tested externally and contested
internally...
Domains
Political science
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