Introduction: Explaining the EU Political System PART I: GOVERNMENT Executive Politics Legislative Politics Judicial Politics PART II: POLITICS Public Opinion Democracy, Parties and Elections Interest Representation PART III: POLICY-MAKING Regulation of the Single Market Expenditure Policies Economic and Monetary Union Citizen Freedom and Security Policies Foreign Policies Conclusions: Rethinking the European Union Appendix: Decision-making Procedures of the European Union Bibliography

The political system of European Union

Preface 1: The study of EU foreign policy: Between international relations and European studies - Thomas Christiansen and Ben Tonra 2: Theorising the European Union's foreign policy - Knud Erik Jorgensen 3: International Relations or European integration: Is the CFSP sui generis? - Jakob C. Ohrgaard 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: European Union's policy in the field of arms export controls - Sibylle Bauer and Eric Remacle 9: Justifying EU foreign policy: The logics underpinning EU enlargement - Helen Sjursen and Karen E. Smith

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Rethinking European Union Foreign Policy

The point of departure in this article is the question of why the EU's policy focus can be said to be regional rather than global in spite of having access to considerable capabilities and instruments in its foreign policy and why the EU has made such little use of the (modest) military means at its disposal so far. The approach used is a constructivist approach drawing on discourse analysis of primarily EU Council documents and the speeches of the High Representative Solana. Successful enlargement and a successful EU role in the former Yugoslavia are presented as the keys to a truly future global role. Moreover, it is shown that the dominant discourse in the EU in the 1990s constructed the EU as a civilian power drawing on political and economic means, which has to a large extent also been the case after the St. Malo Process. In other words, dominant framework of meaning at the EU level provides a possible answer to the EU's regional policy focus and its limited use of military means.

The EU: A Global Military Actor?

The English School of international relations has rarely been used to analyse European integration. But, as we argue in this article, there may be considerable value in adding the English School to the canon of approaches to European integration studies in order to contextualize European integration both historically and internationally. The concepts of international society, world society and empire in particular may be used to reconfigure the current debate about the nature of EEl governance and to compare the EU to other regional international systems, as well as to reconceptualize the EU's international role, and in particular the EU's power to influence affairs beyond its formal membership borders. Conversely, analysing the EU with the help of these English School concepts may also help to refine the latter in the current attempts to reinvigorate the English School as a research programme.

Analysing European Integration, Reflecting on the English School: Scenarios for an Encounter

Competition for competitiveness : the politics of the transformation of the EU competition regime

The European Union as a World Trader Toward a Common Foreign Policy The Union and its European Neighbours The EU's Near Abroad The Mediterranean and the Middle-East Relations with North America Relations with Latin America The EU and Asia The EU, Lome and the Developing World Global Europe?

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