Beyond Intergovernmental Coordination:EU Corporate Foreign Policy Action and the Crisis over Ukraine
Journal: Archive of European Integration (AEI) (University of Pittsburgh)
Year: 2015

Introduction: Since 2014, the European Union (EU) finds itself in the midst of an international crisis over the status and territorial integrity of Ukraine that might have the potential of creating a new conflict among great powers in Europe (Smith 2014, Ferreira-Pereira and Vieira 2014). Moreover, the EU seems to be a major Western player in this conflict– not its member states, nor the United States. The EU seems to behave as a great regional power in its own right that is capable of confronti