European Union Foreign Policy: From Effectiveness to Functionality

Scholars and policymakers in European Union foreign policy lament the European Union's inability to assert itself on the world stage. This book explains this weakness by arguing that European Union foreign policy is burdened by various internal functions, and systemizes the analysis of internal functionality, pushing the study beyond the concern with effectiveness.Introduction Functionality in EU Foreign Policy: A Framework of Analysis Managing Ambivalence: National Foreign Policy in an Age of 'Power Avoidance' The Politics of Performance: Turf Battles in EU Foreign Policy Normative Power and the EU's Search for Meaning Saving the Union? EU Foreign Policy and the Democratic Deficit Conclusio