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Ian Manners, photo.

Ian Manners

Professor

Ian Manners, photo.

Theories and myths of European Foreign Policy

Author

  • Ian Manners

Editor

  • José Magone

Summary, in English

The uncertainties over how to interpret European Foreign Policy (EFP), understood as the nexus between European Union and member state foreign policies, are multiplied in a more global era reconfigured by globalizing, multilateralizing and multipolarizing processes. In order to make greater sense of EFP in a global political-cultural context, this chapter will consider the ways in which political theories and cultural myths co-constitute each other in both symbolic and substantive terms. EFP is understood here to involve the international, supranational and transnational policy processes of European states and institutions in relation to the rest of the world. In this respect, the study of EFP includes an analysis of the engagements of European states in international and multilateral diplomacy, the interregional and multipolar interactions of European international organizations, and the behaviour of European non- governmental actors working through the above agents as part of transnational and globalizing activism.

Publishing year

2014-12

Language

English

Pages

877-891

Publication/Series

Routledge Handbook of European Politics

Document type

Book chapter

Publisher

Routledge

Topic

  • Political Science

Keywords

  • Theories
  • Myths
  • European
  • European Union
  • Foreign Policies

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISBN: 9780815373889
  • ISBN: 9780415626750
  • ISBN: 9781315755830