In the chapter ”The EU’s Self-Conception of Its Roles in Global Affairs” Rikard Bengtsson analyzes the EU’s own role self-conception as it appears in the EU Global Strategy from 2016 and problematizes how the changing international context in recent years yield new preconditions for the EU to act on the global stage.
The chapter is part of a recently published volume entitled National Role Conceptions in a New Millennium: Defining a Place in a Changing World, edited by Michael Grossman, Francis Schortgen och Gordon M. Friedrichs (Routledge 2022).