EU Geopolitical Actorness in a Changing World

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This book elaborates on the assumption that the European Union (EU) actorness might be shifting from normative to geopolitical and strategic focus. Over the past few years, the EU has faced growing challenges such as disruptions in its vicinity, diffusion of global power, and renewed geopolitical competition. These external pressures have significantly impacted the EU, prompting it, among other measures, to announce a “Geopolitical Commission.” Academic literature has acknowledged the EU’s shift from normative power to an increasingly geoeconomic and geopolitical approach. However, the notion of geopolitical actorness warrants closer scrutiny of its implications on foreign policy. This edited volume critically examines the EU’s evolving strategy in a changing world. It provides a conceptual framework for rethinking the Union’s global role and the renewal of foreign policy tools. The book offers a fresh and innovative perspective on whether the EU’s ambition to assert new geopolitical leadership is actually backed by the effective implementation of policies and strategies needed to address emerging global challenges.

Liridon Lika is a lecturer at the Center for International Relations Studies (CEFIR) at the Department of Political Science of the University of Liège (ULiège) in Belgium.

Dealan Riga is a researcher and teaching assistant at the Center for International Relations Studies (CEFIR) at the Department of Political Science of the University of Liège (ULiège) in Belgium.

This book elaborates on the assumption that the European Union (EU) actorness might be shifting from normative to geopolitical and strategic focus. Over the past few years, the EU has faced growing challenges such as disruptions in its vicinity, diffusion of global power, and renewed geopolitical competition. These external pressures have significantly impacted the EU, prompting it, among other measures, to announce a “Geopolitical Commission.” Academic literature has acknowledged the EU’s shift from normative power to an increasingly geoeconomic and geopolitical approach. However, the notion of geopolitical actorness warrants closer scrutiny of its implications on foreign policy. This edited volume critically examines the EU’s evolving strategy in a changing world. It provides a conceptual framework for rethinking the Union’s global role and the renewal of foreign policy tools. The book offers a fresh and innovative perspective on whether the EU’s ambition to assert new geopolitical leadership is actually backed by the effective implementation of policies and strategies needed to address emerging global challenges.

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“The European Union (EU) has faced massive crises in recent years. Russia’s war against Ukraine unleashed a deep shift in the global economy and international politics towards increased geoeconomics and geopolitics. Liridon Lika and Dealan Riga, with their volume, contribute a much-needed scholarly piece on the EU’s geopolitical actorness in such a reconfigured world order. The volume provides a nuanced re-assessment of the concept of EU actorness against the background of strategic thinking and a geopolitical turn in the world. Actorness is explored and evaluated in a rich collection of empirical cases, stretching world regions and a breadth of EU foreign policy tools. This book is a pertinent and timely volume – a must-read for scholars and practitioners alike that seek to understand better the EU’s positioning and challenges in a reconfigured geopolitical world.” (Professor Katharina Meissner, University of Vienna (UNIVIE), Austria)

“A necessary and innovative book on the needs of geopolitical leadership for a supranational organization. Actorness and geopolitics are looked through the paradigm of multiplexity to offer insights on the EU’s strategic turn in foreign policy, especially after the war in Ukraine. A must read.” (Professor Michela Ceccorulli, University of Bologna (UNIBO), Italy)

“Liridon Lika and Dealan Riga succeeded in bringing together around fifteen researchers from European and American universities to reflect on the way in which the European Union (EU) is redefining its role(s) in the face of a changing and unpredictable world. These two dynamic researchers and their contributors managed both to deliver innovative understandings on the EU’s current engagement in global affairs and reveal nimbly the ongoing shift from a normative actor to a more assertive geopolitical actor. The book provides very useful knowledge for anyone wishing to understand the changes underway in the EU’s foreign strategy.” (Professor Sebastian Santander, University of Liège (ULiège), Belgium)

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