European Union’s Evolving External Engagement

Chad Damro is Senior Lecturer of Politics and International Relations, Jean Monnet Chair and Head of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence, and Co-Director of the Europa Institute at the University of Edinburgh, UK. He is also Visiting Professor at the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium. Sieglinde Gstöhl is Professor and Director of the Department of EU International Relations and Diplomacy Studies at the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium.Simon Schunz is Professor in the Department of EU International Relations and Diplomacy Studies at the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium. He is also Research Fellow at the United Nations University Institute on Comparative Regional Integration Studies (UNU-CRIS) and Guest Professor at KU Leuven, Belgium.

• Foreword: A Joined up Global Actor? EU External Engagement and the Fuzzy Boundaries between Internal and External Policies [Helga Maria Schmid, Secretary General of the European External Action Service] Part I: Introduction and Analytical Framework 1. Introduction: The Expanding Scope of EU External Engagement [Simon Schunz, Chad Damro and Sieglinde Gstöhl] 2. Analytical Framework: Understanding and Explaining EU External Engagement [Simon Schunz, Chad Damro and Sieglinde Gstöhl] Part II: EU Internal Policies with a Long-standing External Engagement 3. EU External Engagement in Areas with Longstanding Internal Policies: Single Market, Competition Policy and Environmental Policy [Chad Damro and Enrique Ibáñez] 4. The EU’s External Engagement in the Promotion of Gender Equality [Michaela Anna Šimáková] Part III: EU Internal Policies with Rapidly Evolving External Engagement 5. Crisis in the Euro Area and EU External Engagement in Economic and Monetary Policies [Sara Hurtekant] 6. Work in Progress: The Development of EU External Engagement on Energy [Francesca Batzella] 7. The External Dimension of EU Immigration Policies: Reacting to External Events? [Tommaso Emiliani and Annika Linck] Part IV: EU Internal Policies with Newly Emerging External Engagement 8. The External Engagement of the European Union in Science and Research: Towards EU Science Diplomacy? [Heiko Prange-Gstöhl] 9. Culture in EU External Relations: The Quest for a Cultural Diplomacy [Simon Schunz] 10. The EU’s External Engagement in Higher Education: Externalizing the Bologna Process [Ludovic Highman] 11. Playing a Different Game: The EU’s Engagement in International Sports Governance [Arnout Geeraert and Edith Drieskens] Part V: Conclusion 12.