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This book examines how the different normative foundations of conflict resolution held by various global actors, their understandings of justice, and the differences between types of conflict influence the varying means by which conflicts can be prevented, managed, and ultimately resolved. By combining insights from political theory, conflict studies, and European Union (EU) foreign policy studies, the book identifies the EU as the key case of a conflict manager that is both a product and a defender of a global liberal order. It focuses on three aspects of conflict resolution that pose their own sets of both normative and empirical dilemmas: resolving border disputes; strengthening the resilience of weak or divided states and societies after regime change, and intervention in humanitarian crises. Furthermore, it offers a comparative analysis between a potentially distinctive European approach and that of other global actors and reflects critically on situations where policy practice may not always reflect a concern for justice, asking what countervailing forces prevail and why.

"This book examines how the different normative foundations of conflict resolution held by various global actors, their understandings of justice, and the differences between types of conflict influence the varying means by which conflicts can be prevented, managed and ultimately resolved. By combining insights from political theory, conflict studies and EU foreign policy studies, the book identifies the EU as the key case of a conflict manager that is both a product and a defender of a global liberal order. It focuses on three aspects of conflict resolution that pose their own sets of both normative and empirical dilemmas: resolving border disputes; strengthening the resilience of weak or divided states and societies after regime change, and intervention in humanitarian crises. Furthermore, it offers a comparative analysis between a potentially distinctive European approach and that of other global actors and reflects critically on situations where policy practice may not always reflect a concern for justice, asking what countervailing forces prevail and why. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students in European and EU Studies, Area studies, Conflict Resolution, War Studies, EU Foreign Policy Political Theory, International relations as well as policy makers"--

This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. This book reviews a variety of approaches to the study of the European Union's foreign policy. Much analysis of EU foreign policy contains theoretical assumptions about the nature of the EU and its member states, their inter-relationships, the international system in which they operate and the nature of European integration. Such assumptions, when not discussed openly, often curtail debate. This book opens up this field of enquiry so students, observers and analysts of EU foreign policy can review a range of tools and theoretical templates from which the development and the trajectory of the EU's foreign policy can be studied.Situated at the interface between European studies and international relations, the book outlines how the EU relates to the rest of the world, explaining its effort towards creating a credible, effective and principled foreign, security and defence policy

1. The study of EU foreign policy : between international relations and European studies /Ben Tonra, Thomas Christiansen --2. Theorizing the European Union's foreign policy /Knud Erik Jørgensen --3. International relations or European integration : is the CFSP sui generis? /Jakob C. Øhrgaard --4. Foreign policy analysis and European foreign policy /Brian Whit --5. Discourse analysis in the study of European foreign policy /Henrk Larsen --6. Role identity and the Europeanisation of foreign policy : a political-cultural approach /Lisbeth Aggestann --7. Interests, institutions and identities in the study of European foreign policy /Adrien Hyde-Price --8. Theory and practice of multi-level foreign policy : the European Union's policy in the field of arms export controls /Sibylle Bauer, Eric Remacle --9. Justifying EU foreign policy : the logics underpinning EU enlargement /Helen Sjursen, Karen E. Smith.

This book reviews a variety of approaches to the study of the European Union's foreign policy. Much analysis of EU foreign policy contains implicit theoretical assumptions about the nature of the EU and its member states, their inter-relationships, the international system in which they operate and the nature and direction of European integration. In many instances such assumptions - not being discussed openly - limit, rather than facilitate debate. The purpose of this book is to open up this field of enquiry so that students, observers and analysts of EU foreign policy can review a broad range of tools and theoretical templates from which the development and the trajectory of the EU's foreign policy can be studied. Situated as it is at the interface between European Studies and International Relations, the book also seeks to engage the attention of readers who are anxious to understand how the European Union relates to the rest of the world and to explain the efforts of the EU and its member states towards the creation of a credible, effective and principled foreign, security and defence policy.
Table of contents:
1 The study of EU foreign policy: between international relations and European studies / Ben Tonra and Thomas Christiansen
2 Theorising the European Union's foreign policy / Knud Erik Jørgensen
3 International relations or European integration: is the CFSP sui generis? / Jakob C. Øhrgaard
4 Foreign policy analysis and European foreign policy / Brian White
5 Discourse analysis in the study of European foreign policy / Henrik Larsen
6 Role identity and the Europeanisation of foreign policy: a political–cultural approach / Lisbeth Aggestam
7 Interests, institutions and identities in the study of European foreign policy / Adrian Hyde-Price
8 Theory and practice of multi-level foreign policy: the European union's policy in the field of arms export controls /
Sibylle Bauer and Eric Remacle
9 Justifying EU foreign policy: the logics underpining EU enlargement / Helene Sjursen and Karen E. Smith

This book reviews a variety of approaches to the study of the European Union's foreign policy. Much analysis of EU foreign policy contains implicit theoretical assumptions about the nature of the EU and its member states, their inter-relationships, the international system in which they operate and the nature and direction of European integration. In many instances such assumptions - not being discussed openly - limit, rather than facilitate debate. The purpose of this book is to open up this field of enquiry so that students, observers and analysts of EU foreign policy can review a broad range of tools and theoretical templates from which the development and the trajectory of the EU's foreign policy can be studied. Situated as it is at the interface between European Studies and International Relations, the book also seeks to engage the attention of readers who are anxious to understand how the European Union relates to the rest of the world and to explain the efforts of the EU and its member states towards the creation of a credible, effective and principled foreign, security and defence policy.