The EU as a Global Actor

The EU as global actor

Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY ..................................................................................................................................1
Should the UK leave the European Union?.................................................................................1
What kind of power is the EU, and which roles do trade and human rights play in its
international identity...................................................................................................................5
Is the EU an effective and consistent promoter of human rights outside of its borders..............6
Are economic and normative considerations mutually exclusive ...............................................6
CONCLUSION ..............................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
The European Union as an effective international actor has diversified quickly in early
21st century. With institutionalization of European foreign policy via Common Foreign and
Security Policy and European Security & Defence Policy in late 1990s, European integration as
well as international relations started to aim at their efforts on understanding international role of
EU. By these policies EU has been managed to built broad networks of relations across the
world. European community has international legal personality and is universally recognised a
whole member of enterprises like WTO in its own right. With the end of cold war, European
Union has gradually expended its macro relations and foreign politics which assists it to become
global actor in world politics. European Union actorness has seen a scientific undertaking since it
diversified and broadened its international relations. It is EU's capacity to behave actively to
address other actors in international system (Leruth, Gänzle and Trondal, 2019).
The actorness of EU can be assessed by pointing at its coherence which can evaluate
extent of internal coordination of EU politics as well as by examining of available policy
instruments and the capacity to utilise these instruments. The institutional architecture of
European Union is guided by principles which motivated its own initiation, evolution and
enlargement integrated in United Nations Charter and international law (Flach, 2022). External
relations and international financial institutions are maintained on fragmented basis by
organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development.
MAIN BODY
Should the UK leave the European Union?
In the last three decades European Union has seen huge development as a security actor.
The international properties of the security risks and issues identified by the EU have resulted in
more progressive embeddedness between internal and external concerns of security. Coherence
is is equated with better strategic planning, impact and co-operation. European security strategy
described coherence as bringing together various instruments and capabilities and unity of
command. Coherence in European Union's security approach can be classified into two
categories namely institutional co-operation and shared understanding of security. Institutional
co-operation is considered essential as it provides more centralised approaches to European
governance of cybersecurity (Cini and Borragán, 2022).The main characteristics of cybersecurity
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