Istituto Affari Internazionali

About: Istituto Affari Internazionali is a nonprofit organization based out in Rome, Italy. It is known for research contribution in the topics: European union & Foreign policy. The organization has 40 authors who have published 105 publications receiving 1371 citations. The organization is also known as: Institute of International Affairs.

What Is a Strategy

Abstract: This chapter distils the “what”: what were the main messages of the 2003 ESS and how do these relate to the key points of the 2016 EUGS ? It dissects the EUGS analysing not simply the content, its meaning and implications for the EU, but perhaps more importantly the debates underpinning each choice made in the Strategy itself, be these between the Member States, between and within EU institutions, or amongst the European foreign policy community as a whole.

The making of the EU Global Strategy

Abstract: This article traces the evolution of the EU strategic reflection which culminated in the publication of the EU Global Strategy (EUGS) in June 2016. It explains the choices made by EU High Representative Federica Mogherini over this time period—including both the initial strategic assessment and the final EUGS. It provides a behind the scenes view on the players, the organization and the methods of work used to produce a strategic vision for the EU’s role in the world.

The European Union as a Normative Foreign Policy Actor

Abstract: This is the second in a series of papers from a new project entitled "Who is a normative foreign policy actor? The European Union and its Global Partners". The first paper - entitled Profiling Normative Foreign Policy: The European Union and its Global Partners, by Nathalie Tocci, CEPS Working Document No. 279, December 2007 - set out the conceptual framework for exploring this question. The present paper constitutes one of several case studies applying this framework to the behavior of the European Union, whereas the others to follow concern China, India, Russia and the United States. A normative foreign policy is rigorously defined as one that is normative according to the goals set, the means employed and the results obtained. Each of these studies explores eight actual case examples of foreign policy behavior, selected in order to illustrate four alternative paradigms of foreign policy behavior - the normative, the realpolitik, the imperialistic and the status quo. For each of these four paradigms, there are two examples of EU foreign policy, one demonstrating intended consequences and the other, unintended effects. The fact that examples can be found that fit all of these different types shows the importance of 'conditioning factors', which relate to the internal interests and capabilities of the EU as a foreign policy actor as well as the external context in which other major actors may be at work.