Routledge Studies in European Foreign Policy
About the Book Series
The European foreign policy series publishes cutting edge work on Europe’s role in global politics. Europe and the EU now face multiple challenges including: a changing power structure within international relations, tensions in transatlantic relations; a new politics of climate change; continuing conflict in the Middle East; assertive Russian action in Ukraine and other countries on the EU’s eastern borders; and the euro’s impact on the EU’s global power.
Additionally, the Union’s own internal institutional processes have undergone far-reaching change in recent years, new ambitions for the EU in its Global Strategy and a plethora of strategies has been introduced covering Asia, trade, counter-terrorism, democracy and human rights, geo-economics, and other regions and topics.
This series addresses the standard range of conceptual and theoretical questions related to European foreign policy. At the same time, in response to the intensity of new policy developments, it endeavors to ensure that it also has a topical flavor, addressing the most important and evolving challenges to European foreign policy, in a way that will be relevant to the policy-making and think-tank communities.
Key topics include:
- The EU’s responses to the emergence of a new geopolitics in the Middle East;
- European and EU policy towards the east, as it grapples with conflict in Ukraine and instability elsewhere across the region covered by the Eastern Partnership;
- Europe’s changing engagement with rising powers, and in particular with Asia;
- Transatlantic relations;
- The foreign policy impact of the EU’s internal crisis;
- The new Energy Union, energy security and climate change;
- Europe’s relationship to its southern neighbours in the Mediterranean and in the Sahel and the Horn of Africa.
If you have an idea for a new book in Routledge Studies in European Foreign Policy, please send a written proposal to the Series Editors:
Professor Richard G. Whitman is Professor of Politics and International Relations at the University of Kent.
Professor Richard YOUNGS is Professor of International Relations at the University of Warwick and Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
For guidance on how to structure your proposal, please visit:
www.routledge.com/info/authors
Humanitarian Aid and the European Union: An Analysis of its Effectiveness in the Field
1st Edition
By Irene Morlino
April 29, 2026
This book critically examines the effectiveness of EU humanitarian aid delivery in the wake of multiple crises. Focusing on four primary case studies – Myanmar, Lebanon, Mozambique, and Mali – which present distinct crisis types (complex, human-made, and natural), it reveals why the effectiveness ...
Europeanization and the Making of the EU as a Security Actor: Learning, Differentiation and Change in European Defence Policy
1st Edition
By Christine Nissen
February 27, 2026
This book explains convergence and non-convergence to – as well as divergence from – EU policy with respect to broader Europeanization showing how it varies considerably in outcome and form across time, policy dimensions and actors. Examining three EU member states with different statuses and ...
The Practical Role of The EU’s Values in Diplomacy with China: Complacency, Self-Censorship and Misunderstanding
1st Edition
By Max Roger Taylor
April 14, 2025
Delivering a ground-breaking analysis of the EU’s diplomatic meetings (or dialogues) with China, this book reveals how the EU’s values rarely feature in exchanges, due to ingrained cultures of complacency and self-censorship amongst EU officials. Based on extensive interviews, and focusing on ...
The EU, NATO and the Libya Conflict: Anatomy of a Failure
1st Edition
By Stefano Marcuzzi
January 29, 2024
This book explores the causes and implications of the Libyan crisis since the anti-Gaddafi uprisings of 2011 from the perspective of the EU and NATO. It asks the question of why those organizations failed to stabilize the country despite the serious challenges posed by the protracted crisis to ...
The EU as a State-builder in International Affairs: The Case of Kosovo
1st Edition
By Labinot Greiçevci
May 31, 2023
This book presents a systematic, in-depth, and comparative analysis of the role of the EU in the process of international state-building and is one of the first comprehensive books to do so at an international level. Taking the case of Kosovo, it examines the EU's role in the birth of a state in ...
The EU in Southeast Asian Security: The Role of External Perceptions
1st Edition
By Ronja Scheler
May 31, 2023
This book revealingly traces the ways in which third-party perceptions of an international actor affect its agency in global affairs by using the example of the European Union’s engagement in Southeast Asian non-traditional security. Utilizing an innovative analytical framework emphasising the ...
The European Union and China’s Belt and Road: Impact, Engagement and Competition
1st Edition
Edited
By Vassilis Ntousas, Stephen Minas
May 31, 2023
This book explores key elements of European Union (EU) engagement with the Belt Road Initiative (BRI), drawing on the expertise of leading practitioners and scholars of EU-China relations. Under the theme of discerning the BRI and its nexus with the EU, chapters examine the nature of the BRI as ...
The Politics of the European Neighbourhood Policy
1st Edition
By Agnieszka K. Cianciara
December 19, 2022
This book examines the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) in the context of internal functions performed with regard to the European Union (EU) political system and its key actors. It argues that the ENP has been formulated not only in reaction to external challenges and threats, but also in ...
European Identities and Foreign Policy Discourses on Russia: From the Ukraine to the Syrian Crisis
1st Edition
By Marco Siddi
August 01, 2022
This book examines the relationship between national identity construction and current foreign policy discourses on Russia in selected European Union member states in 2014–2018. It shows that divergent national discourses on Russia derive from the different ways in which the country was constructed...
EU–Turkey Relations: Civil Society and Depoliticization
1st Edition
By Özge Zihnioğlu
September 30, 2021
This book focuses on the hidden but ever-present civil society dimension of the EU’s policies towards Turkey and uncovers the pitfall of EU–Turkey relations. It establishes the growing depoliticization of Turkish civil society (in contrast to what the EU’s policies aimed for) and engages with the ...
EU Regional Trade Agreements: An Instrument of Promoting the Rule of Law to Third States
1st Edition
By Maryna Rabinovych
April 07, 2021
This book unveils the potential of utilizing EU Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) as an instrument of promoting the rule of law to third states. In doing so, the book combines development economics, foreign policy and legal perspectives at three levels of analysis of four sectors to introduce the ...
The Proliferation of Privileged Partnerships between the European Union and its Neighbours
1st Edition
Edited
By Sieglinde Gstöhl, David Phinnemore
March 31, 2021
This edited volume provides a timely analysis of the European Union’s ‘privileged’ partnerships with neighbouring countries, identifying key points of comparison. It analyses which policy areas are covered and why, the reasons why a specific institutional arrangement has been chosen, the major ...