Regions
This section covers the arenas of EU foreign policy, focussing not only on trade, contractual relations and the promotion of interregionalism, but also on elements towards developing a conventional foreign policy and a structural foreign policy, and patterns of EU policy (see also Conceptualising EU Foreign Policy).
EU-Links
On this website by the DG External Relations you can find information on the EU's policy towards different regions in the world.
In the right sidebar you can navigate to the Council's information on the relationship between the EU and different regions.
Here you can find a alphabetic list of countries which, when you click on one, redirects you to the Commission's page on the EU's relation with the country you have chosen.
Overview of all meetings and agreements with third countries organised by date.
Summaries of legislation on relations with the Western Balkans, Eastern Europe and Central Asia, Mediterranean partner countries, Middle East, ACP-states, South Africa and Overseas Countries and Territories, Latin America, Asia and Industrialised countries. (for more up to date information see Europe in the world)
Literature
Aggarwal, V. K. and Fogarty, E. A. (Eds.) (2004). EU Trade Strategies. Between Regionalism and Globalism. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Mahncke, D., Ambos, A., & Reynolds, C. (Eds.) (2004) European Foreign Policy. From Rethoric to Reality? Oxford: Peter Lang Verlag.
Söderbaum, F. and Van Langenhove, L. (Eds.) (2006). The EU as a Global Player. The Politics of Interregionalism. London: Routledge.
Schimmelfennig, F., Engert, S. and Knobel, H. (2006) International Socialization in Europe. European Organisations, Political Conditionality and Democratic Change. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Telò, M. (Ed.) (2007) European Union and New Regionalism. Regional Actors and Global Governance in a Post-Hegemonic Era. Aldershot: Ashgate.
Casarini, N. and Musu, C. (Eds.) (2007). European Foreign Policy in an Evolving International System. The Road towards Convergence. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan
Wunderlich, J.-U. (2008). Regionalism, Globalisation and International Order. Aldershot: Ashgate.
Robinson, N., Rosamond, B. & Warleigh-Lack, A. (Eds.) (2010) New regionalism and the European Union. Dialogues, comparisons and new research directions. London: Routledge.
Murray, P. & Rees, N. (Eds.) (2010) Special Issue: European and Asian Regionalism: Form and Function. International Politics 47 (3-4):269-449.
De Lombaerde, Philippe, and Michael Schulz (eds.) (2009) The EU and World Regionalism: The Makability of Regions in the 21st Century. Abingdon: Ashgate.
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