By Sonia Lucarelli, Lorenzo Fioramonti
This ebook examines how the eu Union (EU) is perceived past its borders within the US; the center East: Israel, Palestinian territories, Lebanon, Iran; Russia; China; India; Brazil and South Africa. The publication additionally analyses the most perceptions of the european in a few key foreign associations, together with the area financial institution; global exchange association, United international locations, African Union; and transnational actors, together with non-Western media equivalent to Al Jazeera. It seeks to supply an intensive research of the consequences that those perceptions may need for the worldwide function of the EU.
By taking this procedure and via delivering either conceptual and empirical arguments, the amount presents an cutting edge standpoint at the research of the ecu as a world actor. It additionally strengthens a learn time table at the ecu exterior photograph: an underdeveloped zone of research during which the editors and the most participants to this quantity have performed a pioneering position some time past few years.
It might be of sturdy curiosity to lecturers and scholars of foreign politics, eu experiences and improvement studies.
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The American liberal internationalism of the Cold War period was arguably embedded in the DNA of the US foreign policy establishment, the legitimacy of which remained robust until the end of the twentieth century. Within this context and the Soviet–American competition to achieve European hegemony, the American preference to rely upon multilateral institutions and an unwillingness to flaunt international law was consistent with European sensibilities, although differences certainly existed at the margins of transatlantic diplomacy, particularly outside Europe.
The Federal Reserve and Defense retain a largely state-centric orientation inside and outside Europe. 73 Notes *Department of Commerce. **1994–2007. C. Sperling What conclusions can we draw about the US government’s perception of the EU as a foreign policy actor? The Senate and House endow the EU with a high level of ‘actorness’ vis-à-vis the member states; it is also treated as an important global actor. The House and Senate hearings portray the EU primarily as an economic actor (almost 60 per cent of the EU-titled hearings are on economic issues), although its profile as a security actor is not insignificant.
What do the headlines in these three papers since 1990 tell us about the American foreign policy elite’s perception of the EU as an actor? 3) The EU appears in less than 2 per cent of titles in those papers, although it has a higher profile in the Journal, no doubt reflecting the readership’s interest in the consequences of the EU’s regulatory role for American capital – an inference supported by the relatively low number of headlines devoted to Iraq as compared to the Times and Post. As important, the major member states appear more frequently in Times headlines than the EU by a wide margin, although the discrepancy is less pronounced in the Post.