This book contributes to the literature on the EU's role in the international system by engaging with the debates on global actorness and mapping new conceptual and theoretical avenues to better understand how agency and power are exerted at the global and regional levels, in a context of increased contestation of the international liberal order. Organised around three main lines, the book first looks at how the EU positions itself internationally in different policy areas, providing a multi-dimensional reading of EU policies, instruments, and practices; secondly, it engages with the EU's own perspective toward its regional contexts and with the perspectives of regional actors on the EU; and, thirdly, it explores non-European perspectives on EU actorness, as the way the EU is perceived by others in this system of contested leadership is central to how it is understood in terms of policies, instruments, and overall capability to lead and act as a global power.

Chapter 1

EU Global Actorness in a World of Contested Leadership: Policies, Instruments and PerceptionsMaria Raquel Freire, Paula Duarte Lopes, Daniela Nascimento, Licínia Simão……………….1

 

Chapter 2

Unpacking the EU’s international actorness: debates, theories and conceptsLicínia Simão………………………………………………………………………....................10

 

Part I: Actorness across EU Policy Areas

Chapter 3

The added value of European diplomacy for EU regional and international actornessHeidi Maurer………………………………………………………………………………...….26

 

Chapter 4

Global player status? EU actorness and democracy promotionAnna Khakee…………………………………………………………………………………….39

 

Chapter 5

Securing peace through humanitarian action: The EU response to complex emergencies

Daniela Nascimento……………………………………………………………………………..54

 

Chapter 6

Taking its rightful place? Legitimising discourse and EU actorness in the nexus of trade and regulation

Elitsa Garnizova………………………………………………………………………...………68

 

Chapter 7

The EU actorness in the security field: The case of GeorgiaShu Uchida……………………………………………………………………………...………82

 

Part II: EU Regional Actorness

Chapter 8

The EU in the wider Caspian: actorness and social limits of recognitionElham Gharji………………………………………………………………………………...….95

 

Chapter 9

The EU and North Africa, or the actorness of the possibleNizar Messari………………………………………………………………………………….106

 

Chapter 10

An asset or liability: Turkey’s potential in availing EU global actornessErhan Doğan and H. Deniz Genç………………………………………………………..…….120

 

Chapter 11

Global Giant, Regional Dwarf? Perceptions of EU Actorness in Kazakhstan and KyrgyzstanZhanibek Arynov……………………………………………………………………………….134

 

Chapter 12

Russia vis-à-vis the European Union: perceptions and perspectives for cooperation Larisa Deriglazova…………………………………………………………………………….150

 

Part III: External Views on EU Actorness

Chapter 13

Brazilian perspectives on EU global actorness in the case of digital technologies regulation and internet governance: an opportunity to improve mutual relations?Andrea Ribeiro Hoffmann and Paula Sandrin………………………………………………...168

 

Chapter 14

The European Union as A Global Actor: An Indian PerspectiveRajan Kumar…….........................................................................................................……….182

 

Chapter 15

China’s considerations and perceptions about the EUDingding Chen, Yu Xia, Junrong Chen, Hengyi Yang……………………………………….194

 

Chapter 16

‘S/he who pays the piper’: Examining the (de)legitimising influence of European Union’s financial support to the African UnionBabatunde Fagbayibo…………………………………………………………..……………..205

 

Chapter 17

The European Union actorness: A View from Washington D.C.Aleksandar Jankovski………………………………………………………………………….220

 

Chapter 18

ConclusionMaria Raquel Freire, Paula Duarte Lopes, Daniela Nascimento, Licínia Simão………….....241