Keukeleire and Delreux demonstrate the scope and diversity of the European Union's foreign
policy showing that EU foreign policy is broader than the Common Foreign and Security Policy
and the Common Security and Defence Policy and that areas such as trade development
environment and energy are inextricable elements of it. This book offers a comprehensive and
critical account of the EU's key foreign relations - with its neighbourhood with the US China
and Russia and with emerged powers - and argues that the EU's foreign policy needs to be
understood not only as a response to crises and conflicts but also as a means of shaping
international structures and influencing long-term processes. This third edition reflects
recent changes and trends in EU foreign policy as well as the international context in which it
operates addressing issues such as the increasingly contested international order the
conflict in Ukraine the migration and refugee crisis Brexit and Covid-19. The book not only
clarifies the formal procedures in EU foreign policy-making but also elucidates how it works in
practice. The third edition includes new sections and boxes on 'strategic autonomy' European
arms exports the EU's external representation the 'Brussels Effect' and decentring and
gender approaches to EU foreign policy. Up to date jargon-free and supported by its own
website (eufp.eu) this systematic and innovative appraisal of this key policy area is suitable
for undergraduate and postgraduate students as well as practitioners.
