This collection brings together leading scholars and practitioners to assess the processes, institutions and outcomes of the EU's collective diplomatic engageme

A very timely and topical volume concerned with the impact of the Lisbon Treaty on the European Union’s (EU) capacity to further develop a distinctive foreign

The European Union is a key player in international economic relations, but its exact role and how it goes about making decisions and negotiating is often poorl

This book is the first to comprehensively examine the institutional dynamics that characterize the diplomatic system set up by the European Communities and the

Is the European Union a unified actor in world politics? The world’s leading economic power is still struggling to find its role in shaping and maintaining gl