Oriol Costa is Associate Professor of International Relations at the UAB (Autonomous University of Barcelona) and Senior Research Associate at IBEI (Barcelona Institute for International Studies), Spain.Eduard Soler i Lecha is Associate Professor of International Relations at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, SpainMartijn Vlaskamp is Assistant Professor at the Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals (IBEI), Spain.

• 1. EU foreign Policy and the Fragmentation of the International Order. A Framework for Analysis.- 2. EU Trade Policy in light of a Fragmented Liberal International Order.- 3. Strategic Autonomy in Security and Defence as an Impracticability? How the European Union’s Rhetoric Meets Reality.- 4. The European Union and the fragmentation of the International Human Rights Regime: the case of violence against women.- 5. The EU’s Role in Global Health: Embracing Governance Complexity?.- 6. Looking for Resource Sovereignty in a Fragmenting Global Order: The EU’s Response to Critical Raw materials Challenges.- 7. The Global Gateway: Connectivity and Competition in the Global Race for Infrastructures.- 8. The EU’s Response to the Fragmented Emergence of Artificial Intelligence.- 9. An Overstrained Actor? The European Union and the Challenges of Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Arms Control.- 10. Taking Stock on the Role of the EU in a Fragmenting International Order.