2014 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
The Nature of EU Foreign Policy
Published in:
The Foreign Policy of the European Union
In the introduction, we presented a short overview of the genesis of EU foreign policy, a series of puzzling observations about the relevance of EU’s foreign policy, and an assessment of three episodes in European integration and international relations. All of these elements provide both an illuminating and confusing picture of EU foreign policy. Acknowledging the sometimes contradictory nature of EU foreign policy, this chapter deals with the EU’s peculiar foreign policy architecture.