EU Geopolitical Actorness in a Changing World

Liridon Lika is a lecturer at the Center for International Relations Studies (CEFIR) at the Department of Political Science of the University of Liège (ULiège) in Belgium.Dealan Riga is a researcher and teaching assistant at the Center for International Relations Studies (CEFIR) at the Department of Political Science of the University of Liège (ULiège) in Belgium.

• Chapter 1: Introduction: Acknowledging EU Shifts of Paradigm.- Part 1: Deepening the Conceptual Toolbox.- Chapter 2: The Shocks That Bind Us: International Crises and the Political Strengthening of the EuropeanUnion.- Chapter 3: Evolution of European Union Power in Late-Westphalian International Environment.- Chapter 4: The Making of the EU’s International Identity: How EU Interaction with Great Powers Shapesits Global Self Representation.- Chapter 5: Engaging Systemic Rivalry: Exploring the Geopolitization of EU Trade and Foreign Policy Toward China.- Chapter 6: Reinforcing EU’s Actorness? A Look at EU’s Reshaping of Security.- Part 2: Reflecting on EU Toolbox to Enable Geopolitical Actorness.- Chapter 7: Does the EU Have Sufficient Power for the Democratization in the Western Balkan Countries?.- Chapter 8: The Enlargement of the EU Towards the Western Balkans: Challenges and Opportunities.- Chapter 9: EU’s Geopolitical Approach in the Eastern Neighbourhood and the Strategic Influence of the Euro-Atlantic Alliance Framework.- Chapter 10: EU’s Cultural Influence in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Reassessing EU’s Actorness in Shaping Geopolitics in the Western Balkans.- Chapter 11: Restrictive Measures as a Tool of Foreign Policy: The Case of European Sanctions in Belarus.- Chapter 12: EU Strategic Autonomy and Defence Capabilities after the Russian Invasion in Ukraine.- Part 3: Case Studies of EU Geopolitical Actorness.- Chapter 13: Public Attitudes Towards the EU in the Western Balkans.- Chapter 14: Geopolitical EU? The EU’s Engagement with Ukraine in the Aftermath of the 2022 Russian Invasion.- Chapter 15: EU Actorness in the Middle East: An Enterprise Doomed to Fail?.- Chapter 16: Can the EU Act in the Indo-Pacific?.- Chapter 17: European Union’s Use of the Overseas Countries and Territories (OCTs) to Promote its Geopolitical “External Governance” Interests in the Atlantic, Caribbean, and the Pacific.- Chapter 18: Conclusion: Assessment of the EU Geopolitical Actorness in a Shifting World Order.