The European Union, Crisis Management, and International Order

Smith, Michael

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-51791-5_41

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“…This context of uncertainty and the forces tending to contestation of the transatlantic relationship within Washington were magnified by continuing policy uncertainty and instability within the EU. As already noted, the effects of the UK referendum on exiting the EU in 2016 reverberated within the Union and became linked with the impact of 'transnational nationalism' in leading member states, as well as in a number of Eastern European members (Smith 2018a(Smith , 2021b. The challenge to the established order was seen to diminish with the defeat of populist forces in the Netherlands and France, but was underlined by election results in Germany (with the rise of the AfD), Italy and Austria.…”

Section: Crisis and Breakdown: 2016-2020mentioning

confidence: 99%

The EU-Canada Strategic Partnership: Challenges and Opportunities

Verdun

2021

The European Union's Strategic Partnerships

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This Book Series aims to be a central resource for the growing community of scholars and policy-makers who engage with the evolving interface between the EU and international affairs. It provides in-depth, cutting edge and original contributions of world-class research on the EU in international affairs by highlighting new developments, insights, challenges and opportunities. It encompasses analyses of the EU's international role, as mediated by its own Member States, in international institutions and in its strategic bilateral and regional partnerships. Books in the Series examine evolving EU internal policies that have external implications and the ways in which these are both driven by, and feed back into, international developments. Grounded in Political Science, International Relations, International Political Economy, Law, Sociology and History, the Series reflects a commitment to interdisciplinary scholarship. We welcome book proposals relating to the changing role of the EU in international affairs across policies and the Union's relations with different parts of the world, as well as relations with states and multilateral institutions. We are interested in research on values and norms, interests and global governance and welcome both theory-informed studies and studies comparing the EU with other major global actors. To

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Section: Crisis and Breakdown: 2016-2020mentioning

confidence: 99%

The EU-Canada Strategic Partnership: Challenges and Opportunities

Verdun

2021

The European Union's Strategic Partnerships

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“…In turn, China's cooperation with African countries, until recently characterized as "decisive non-interference in the internal affairs of partner countries while maintaining the economic interests of China" (Stahl, 2018;Bartel, 2017), is experiencing a grad-ual shift towards Beijing's greater involvement in security and peacebuilding issues on the African continent. While the agreements signed by China with African countries remain predominantly economic, the growing dependence of China's success in implementing its trade and economic interests on the vicissitudes of African and, in general, world politics encourages Beijing to step up its activities on a global scale.…”

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The Eu, China and Africa: Cooperation in the Sphere of Security

Денисова¹

2022

FRS

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One of the trends currently observed in world politics is the growing global influence of China and African countries. These actors are beginning to make an ever greater contribution to the formation of a new – multipolar – world. This trend is of particular importance in relation to Africa – a continent that is experiencing permanent political instability and an associated lag in economic development. The main security problems in Africa include armed conflicts between certain groups of the population for access to natural resources; clashes between tribal and confessional communities; the proliferation of Islamic and Christian terrorist groups; electoral crises; piracy. While the EU retains its role as the main trade and economic partner of African countries and also cooperates with the latter in the field of security much more than other international players, China’s aspiration to become a global power prompts Beijing to participate more actively in solving security problems of the continent. Although most agreements signed between the PRC and African countries focus on trade, economic and social relations, the growing interdependence between national interests of China and domestic African politics encourages Beijing to reconsider its approaches to interaction with particular African regions. Moreover, since the participation of European states in peacekeeping missions has been gradually decreasing since the mid-1990s, the role of developing countries, including China, in ensuring security on the African continent has steadily increased. Expanding security cooperation in the EU-China-Africa format is a European initiative, but trilateral cooperation is still limited, primarily due to a noticeable difference in the approaches of China and the EU to Africa. Nevertheless, it is gradually being established in the format of joint participation in peacekeeping operations, as well as in the context of the fight against piracy and terrorism.

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“…3 Further, several other recent studies indicate that the EU has remained true to its overall aim of defending the liberal multilateral order even in the face of rising geopolitical uncertainty. In cases that range from discussions of future international trade and climate negotiations, to how to deal with international conflicts and threats such as the Iran nuclear potential, the EU is still multilateralist, actively promoting cooperation and binding regulation (Cross 2018;Riddervold 2018a;Smith 2018Smith , 2020. Cross (2018) notes how the EU has consistently exported a unified vision of climate policy abroad, promoting a strict, enforceable international regime.…”

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Not so unique after all? Urgency and norms in EU foreign and security policy

Rieker

Riddervold

2021

Journal of European Integration

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The EU Global Strategy puts 'principled pragmatism' at the core of EU foreign and security policy. This has also been promoted as away of closing the gap between talk and action. Still, the concept has been widely criticized and interpreted as away of making the Union's 'organized hypocrisy' less glaring. By exploring key EU foreign and security policy strategies and policies implemented over the past decade, this article suggests that a certain pattern for when the EU acts normatively and when it acts strategically can be identified. While the overall ambition is still to promote a more normative policy, also when it comes at a considerable economic cost, there is a limit to how it is willing to go. Evidence suggests that when faced with a situation perceived as urgent, the EU becomes more prone to implement policies that are at odds with its own principles.

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The European Union, Crisis Management, and International Order

Cited by 6 publications

References 21 publications

The EU-Canada Strategic Partnership: Challenges and Opportunities

The EU-Canada Strategic Partnership: Challenges and Opportunities

The Eu, China and Africa: Cooperation in the Sphere of Security

Not so unique after all? Urgency and norms in EU foreign and security policy

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