Exploring the European Union external actorness moving from norms to policy practices

The literature discussing the European Union foreign policies and external actorness has comprehensively analysed the EU abilities, successes and challenges when trying to diffuse its norms, policy practices and institutional solutions to other actors around the world. However, we are missing an ind...

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Published in:European political science 2023-12, Vol.22 (4), p.459-475
Main Author: Serban, Ileana Daniela
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Budgets
Collaboration
Comparative Politics
Cooperation
Data analysis
International cooperation
Norms
Political Science
Political Science and International Relations
Political Science and International Studies
Political Theory
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Summary:The literature discussing the European Union foreign policies and external actorness has comprehensively analysed the EU abilities, successes and challenges when trying to diffuse its norms, policy practices and institutional solutions to other actors around the world. However, we are missing an independent research agenda discussing how EU external actorness evolves because of such interactions. A reinforced EU external actorness agenda should look at how EU norms and policy practices get to interact with each other. Moreover, it should account for how the agency of non-EU actors contributes to the evolving EU external actorness. This analytical approach has the potential to unpack the EU learning journey when translating norms into new policy practices. The current article showcases the importance of this agenda while proposing an exploratory pilot quantitative methodology based on an EU aid budgets analysis. It hypothesises instances of EU policy interpretation and discusses the case of interregionalism and delegated cooperation as examples of interacting EU policy practices.
ISSN:1680-4333
1682-0983
DOI:10.1057/s41304-023-00421-0