Conclusion: A distinctive EU foreign policy or distinguishing distinctions?

Amelia Hadfield; Richard Whitman; Ian James Manners

doi:10.4324/9781315276724

Conclusion: A distinctive EU foreign policy or distinguishing distinctions?

Amelia Hadfield, Richard Whitman, Ian James Manners

Centre for European Politics

Abstract

The stakes have never been higher for the European Union. Its very distinctiveness – twenty-eight separate national units morphed into an inelegant but powerful overarching supranational institutional framework – now appear to have less, rather than more in common. Taken together, Member States’ own quarrelsome attitudes, as well as external perceptions of EU actorness as materially diminished are in danger of eroding its overall foreign policy presence. EU crises have radiated geopolitically and deepened in severity, neither containable within Europe nor regarded as a ‘domestic’ issue of the EU.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Foreign Policies of European Union Member States : Continuity and Europeanisation
Editors	Amelia Hadfield, Ian Manners, Richard Whitman
Place of Publication	London
Publisher	Routledge
Publication date	2017
Pages	263-278
Chapter	16
ISBN (Print)	9780415670067, 9780415670050
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315276724
Publication status	Published - 2017

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Faculty of Social Sciences
foreign policy
Euroepan Union
member states

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Conclusion : A distinctive EU foreign policy or distinguishing distinctions? / Hadfield, Amelia; Whitman, Richard; Manners, Ian James.

Foreign Policies of European Union Member States: Continuity and Europeanisation. ed. / Amelia Hadfield; Ian Manners; Richard Whitman. London : Routledge, 2017. p. 263-278.

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