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This book fosters critical reflection on Europe's place in a fast-changing global environment, covering the soft and hard facets of EU power along the spectrum of low politics-high politics.
Taking an innovative case-study approach, it provides a wide understanding of European Studies and International Relations beyond classical power considerations and addresses the crossroads of the two disciplines. Fundamentally, it addresses the specificity of the EU as an actor in International Relations and shows that the EU holds power and influence - creating opportunities for peace-making and peace-building - in a way classical IR theory would suggest it should not.
This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of European Studies, foreign policy analysis, International Relations, Security Studies, Political Science, History, and Economics.
List of contents
Introduction 1. EU-Russia Relations and the Ukraine Conflict 2. Transatlantic Relations Now and Then: In Search of a Balance between "America First" and "America Is Back" 3. Everything but Arms: The European Commission and Its Geopolitical Discourse on Preferential Trade for "the Most In Need" 4. The EU in the Nuclear Iranian Case: Its Role in the Negotiations and its Significance within International Relations Theories 5. Between Low Politics and Soft Power: EU's Inter-regional Relations with Mercosur 6. Institutional Process and Dispute Negotiations: An International Relations/International Law Approach of EU's Relations with North Macedonia 7. European Monetary Policy in a Globalized World: From Low to High Politics 8. What Type of Actor? The EU's Strategy for Cooperation in the Indo-Pacific 9. How to Use Paradiplomacy in the EU Foreign Policymaking? Opportunities, Mechanisms, Limitations 10. Beyond the Dichotomy of Hard and Soft Power: A Case Study of the EU's Naval Engagement in the Indo-Pacific Region. Conclusion
About the author
Thomas Hoerber is Professor for European Studies and holds a Jean Monnet Chair in European Studies. He directs the EU*Asia Institute at ESSCA School of Management (Angers), France.
Alexandre Bohas is Professor in International Affairs at ESSCA School of Management on the Aix-en-Provence campus and a research associate at CERGAM, Aix-Marseille Université, France.
Stefano Valdemarin is Associate Professor in International Business and Strategy at ESSCA School of Management (Lyon) and holds a PhD in Management Sciences from the University of Lyon, France.
Summary
This book fosters critical reflection on Europe's place in a fast-changing global environment, covering the soft and hard facets of EU power along the spectrum of low politics-high politics.
