Values and Principles in European Foreign Policy

As form the book's flyer: As a fresh examination of the values and principles that inform EU Foreign Policy, this book presents a clear and close reading of the EU as an international actor. This up-to-date volume explores the implications of these values and principles on the construction of European Union identity today. It also shows how current debates on European Union foreign policy and on European identity tend to be kept separated as if the process of identity formation had only an internal dimension or it was not related to the external behaviour of an international actor. This new book examines the values and principles that inform EU Foreign Policy in order to achieve a better understanding of the EU as an international actor and to explore implications of these values and principles on the process of the construction of the European Union identity. Conceiving EU Foreign Policy in its broadest context, as a set of political actions that are regarded by external actors as ‘EU’ actions, the contributors focus on both Pillar I and Pillar II policies, involving EU and member state actions, and material political actions and less material ones such as speech acts. Contents 1. Introduction: values, principles, identity and European Union foreign policy 2. The constitutive nature of values, images and principles in the European Union 3. Theoretical perspectives on the role of values, images and principles in foreign policy 4. Values, Science and the European Union in a Global Order 5. Environmental values and climate change: contrasting the EU with the USA 6. The European Union and gender protection 7. Principles of democracy and human rights: a review of the European Union’s strategies towards its neighbours 8. European Union human rights and democracy in relations with Russia and China 9. The use of force as coercive intervention: the conflicting values of the EU’s external action 10. Values in European Union development cooperation policy 11. European Union regulatory capitalism and multilateral trade negotiations 12. Conclusion: valuing principles in European Union foreign policy. www.routledge.com/politics