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Sunday, July 1st, 2012
Restructuring the Foreign Policy of the EU: Competing Narratives and Discourses
ABSTRACT
The study of EU foreign policy has devoted over the last years great emphasis to the conceptualization of the role of the Union as an international actor. This paper critically analyzes two overarching narratives – realist and interpretive - about the role of the Union as an international actor employing...