Conflict Management And The Future Of EU Foreign And Security Policy Relational Power Europe

This book analyses how the European Union (EU) has dealt with crises and conflicts including Russia’s invasion of Ukraine Iran’s nuclear dispute and Syria’s civil war to understand the peculiar nature of its role in international security. Rather than focusing on the institutional set‑up of the EU’s foreign and security policy the authors look at the ‘outer’ world concentrating on crises and conflicts impinging on Europe’s security. They argue that the EU and its member states’ policies are constrained by systemic factors such as acute geopolitical rivalries and the fragmentation of regional governance systems as well as by multi‑source internal contestation of policies across member states. Hence building on pragmatist‑informed analysis they show that the EU’s actorness in international security is first and foremost constituted by interactions with its domestic and systemic context and as such it should be understood as a ‘relational power’. This volume will be of great use to scholars and students of International Relations European Studies Security Conflict and Peace Studies and Diplomacy Studies seeking to deepen their understanding of the subject. |Conflict Management and the Future of EU Foreign and Security Policy Relational Power Europe