This paper is the first in a series that will investigate normative foreign policy and forms part of a new project intended to explore fundamental aspects of foreign policy at the global level. Subsequent papers in the series will apply the conceptual framework developed in this paper to five...

This is the second in a series of papers from a new project entitled quot;Who is a normative foreign policy actor? The European Union and its Global Partnersquot;. The first paper - entitled Profiling Normative Foreign Policy: The European Union and its Global Partners, by Nathalie Tocci, CEPS...

While energy security has gradually been incorporated into the EU's foreign policy calculus, the declared approach of extending a nexus of 'market-governance' energy norms has been realized only to a limited extent. The EU has eschewed a comprehensively political approach to energy security,...

The EU has increasingly committed itself to fusing security and development. Developmental approaches to security are routinely seen as integral to the EU's distinctive foreign policy identity. This paper finds, however, that much work remains to be done to implement this commitment. Few in the...