European Structural Power on the Wane? EU Foreign Policy between External and Internal Challenges
Journal: SPIRE (Sciences Po)
Year: 2019

The European Union’s (EU) foreign policy software\nneeds updating: it appears to be increasingly out of\nsync with the operating system of international politics.\nAt the turn of the millennium, many had hoped\nthat the EU’s internal model and institutional nature\n– as a transnational multilateral governance platform\nbased on international law and soft power – would\nmake it well prepared for, and even a potential leader\nin, the world to come (Howorth, 2010). Yet, postmodern\nEurope has not s