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This article explores major theoretical approaches to the study of European integration, European Union (EU) as a globalpower, and the EU Common Foreign and Security Policy. The argument presented here is that only a combination of bothInternational Relations and European integration approaches will allow us to understand the very premises of the Europeanintegration project in terms of both internal and external – international-aspects. This approach will be complementaryto the attempts by researchers those who call to mainstream European studies and an appeal in favor of aboundingthe project of conceptualizing the EU as a single case or as being Sui generis. This article argues that, despite seriousattempts by scholars of the field of European studies, it seems difficult to theorize European integration. The establishedliterature to the existing political entities seems less relevant to study EU due to the union's unique identity. Theoriesof EU integration are unable to explain or predict the process of integration, but they are normally outpaced by events.