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The European Union as a Global Actor

When trade, global warming, human rights, local conflicts, or indeed most of the major

global issues are addressed in the news, it is likely that the European Union will be

involved. It is not a state, yet in some of its roles it rivals the United States. This poses a

problem for international relations theory, which is more accustomed to dealing with

sovereign state actors.

This new and substantially re-written edition of

The European Union as a Global

Actor

seeks to address this issue, develops a theoretical approach to understanding the

European Union as an actor in the global system, and applies the theory across the range

of the EU’s external activities.

This new edition includes:

• A new emphasis on the construction of identity and its relation to actor capability

• An investigation of external constructions of the EU, including a wide range of

interviews with the staff of third country missions

• A substantive analysis of the dimensions of EU external action based on new research

which provides a wide coverage of recent developments in economic, environmental,

development, foreign and now military policy

• Up-to-date material on the structures, procedures and content of EU external action.

The European Union as a Global Actor

builds upon the ground-breaking constructivist

approach to defining and explaining the development of the European actor formulated

within the first edition. This book provides an invaluable and comprehensive resource for

students with interests in European Studies, International Relations and Politics.

Charlotte Bretherton

is Senior Lecturer in European Studies and International

Relations at Liverpool John Moores University. Her main interests are in the

contemporary European Union, development and gender issues.

John Vogler

is Professor of International Relations at Keele University and Chair of

the British International Studies Association Environment Group. He is the author of

numerous publications on the environment in world politics and international cooperation

including

The Global Commons

(2000).

The European Union as a Global

Actor

Second edition

Charlotte Bretherton and John Vogler

LONDON AND NEW YORK

Second edition published 2006 by

Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN

Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by

Routledge 270 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10016

First published 1999 by Routledge

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This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2006.

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Bretherton,

Charlotte. The European Union as a global actor/Charlotte Bretherton & John Vogler.-2nd ed. p.

cm. “Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada.” Includes bibliographical references and

index. 1. European Union countries—Foreign relations. 2. European Union countries-Foreign

economic relations. I. Vogler, John. II. Title. D1060.B735 2006 341.2422′2–dc22 2005017285

ISBN 0-203-02267-X Master e-book ISBN

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