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Competing structural powers and challenges for the EU's structural foreign policy

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Keukeleire, Stephan Delreux, Tom [UCL]

This article contends that, in order to understand global affairs, not only crises and conflicts need to be examined, but also long-term processes which result from the competition between structural powers. These structural powers have the potential to set or influence the organizing principles and the rules of the game in other countries and regions as well as the international system in general. The article focuses on the European Union's potential as a structural power. Examining where the EU has succeeded and where it has failed to behave as a structural power, it argues that the EU is losing the structural power game against competing structural powers in its neighbourhood, specifically Russia in the EU's eastern neighbourhood and the multifarious phenomenon of “Islamism” in the EU's southern neighbourhood.

Document type Article de périodique (Journal article) – Article de recherche
Access type Accès restreint
Publication date 2015
Language Anglais
Journal information "Global Affairs" - Vol. 1, no.1, p. 43-50 (2015)
Peer reviewed yes
issn 2334-0460
e-issn 2334-0479
Publication status Publié
Affiliation UCL - SSH/SPLE - Institut de sciences politiques Louvain-Europe
Keywords European Neighbourhood Policy ; European Union ; Foreign policy ; Islamism ; Russia ; structural foreign policy ; structural power
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Bibliographic reference Keukeleire, Stephan ; Delreux, Tom. Competing structural powers and challenges for the EU's structural foreign policy. In: Global Affairs, Vol. 1, no.1, p. 43-50 (2015)
Permanent URL http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/156050