Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : puzzles and prospects in theorizing the EU's external relations / Michèle Knodt, Sebastiaan Princen -- A fragmented external role : the EU, defence policy, and new atlanticism / Sten Rynning -- Understanding the common foreign and security policy : analytical building blocks / Helene Sjursen -- What game, by which rules : adaptation and flexibility in the EC's foreign economic policy / Alasdair R. Young -- Framing and American threat : the European Commission and the technology gap / Ulrika Mörth -- European external relations fields : the multi-pillar issue of economic sanctions against Serbia / Yves Buchet de Neuilly -- Negotiating when others are watching : explaining the outcomes of the association negotiations between the European community and the countries of central and eastern Europe, 1990-1991 / Dimitris Papadimitriou -- Exporting values : EU external co-operation as a soft diplomacy / Franck Petiteville -- Exporting regulatory standards : the cases of trapping and data protection / Sebastiaan Princen -- The export of the fight against organized crime policy model and the EU's international actorness / Francesca Longo -- A challenge for the commons : EU fisheries management in international arenas / Marta A. Ballesteros -- Understanding the EU's external relations : the move from actors to processes / Sebastiaan Princen, Michèle Knodt.

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