External Perceptions and EU Foreign Policy Effectiveness: The Case of Climate Change

Diarmuid Torney

doi:10.1111/jcms.12150

External Perceptions and EU Foreign Policy Effectiveness: The Case of Climate Change

JCMS Journal of Common Market Studies ◽

10.1111/jcms.12150 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 52 (6) ◽

pp. 1358-1373 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

Diarmuid Torney

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Foreign Policy ◽

Policy Effectiveness ◽

Eu Foreign Policy

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Anthropocene Geopolitics and Foreign Policy: Exploring the Link in the EU Case

Alternatives Global Local Political ◽

10.1177/0304375420931706 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 45 (2) ◽

pp. 83-101

Author(s):

Filippos Proedrou

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Foreign Policy ◽

Policy Design ◽

Theoretical Background ◽

Policy Implications ◽

Security Threats ◽

Eu Foreign Policy ◽

Change Concerns ◽

Different Levels ◽

The Eu

Scholarly literature has recently developed the notions of Anthropocene geopolitics and planetary security. How these relate to and whether they inform states’ foreign policy, however, remains a largely underdeveloped issue. This article goes some way toward addressing this gap both theoretically and empirically. Theoretically, it unpacks how traditional and Anthropocene geopolitics diverge in their approach toward the security repercussions of climate change and teases out the emanating foreign policy implications. These revolve around different levels of climate ambition, divergent approaches to fossil energy geopolitics, and differing weighting of planetary security versus mainstream geopolitical threats. Against this theoretical background, this article empirically zooms in on the EU case to explore which geopolitical mindset guides EU’s pursuit of climate change concerns and their incorporation in the EU foreign policy design. The analysis finds that, despite its comprehensive foreign climate policy initiatives, the EU remains fixed to a traditional geopolitical mindset and a foreign policy that underappreciates planetary security threats. This article subsequently operationalizes a foreign policy design informed by the Anthropocene geopolitics approach and sketches what it would entail.

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EU foreign policy fragmentation will increase

Emerald Expert Briefings ◽

10.1108/oxan-db244776 ◽

2019 ◽

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Foreign Policy ◽

Southern Europe ◽

Predominant Role ◽

Content Type ◽

Carbon Neutrality ◽

Eu Foreign Policy ◽

Competition Rules ◽

National Champions ◽

The Eu

Subject Structural challenges to EU foreign policy. Significance The EU lacks a consolidated foreign policy: member states play a predominant role in external affairs. However, given such domestic challenges as political fragmentation, adverse demographic change and rising populism, national foreign policy faces a future of more volatility and uncertainty. This could increase the need to bolster the EU’s foreign policy powers. Impacts Positions on Russian sanctions and the Iran nuclear deal show the Council able to form a consensus on some important external issues. Germany and France will push for changed EU competition rules to allow ‘national champions’ to emerge against Chinese and US competitors. Regional neighbours in Northern and Southern Europe may deepen inter-governmentalism and cooperation, respectively. The EU could become a global trendsetter in climate change, especially if Germany and Poland agree to carbon neutrality by 2050.

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