The European Union’s environmental foreign policy: from planning to a strategy?

In the early twenty-first century, environmental matters have become subject to high politics, tackled in complex global contexts. In such contexts, effectively dealing with environmental challenges requires a geopolitically informed environmental foreign policy strategy. This article examines wheth...

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Published inInternational Politics Vol. 56; no. 3; pp. 339 - 358
Main Author Schunz, Simon
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Japanese
Published London Springer Science and Business Media LLC 01.06.2019
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Palgrave Macmillan
Subjects
Ambition
Climate change
Development Studies
Environmental policy
Foreign Policy
International Political Economy
International Relations
Leadership
Original Article
Political Science
Political Science and International Relations
Political Science and International Studies
Europe
Environment
Strategy
Environmental foreign policy
Strategic studies
European Union
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Summary:In the early twenty-first century, environmental matters have become subject to high politics, tackled in complex global contexts. In such contexts, effectively dealing with environmental challenges requires a geopolitically informed environmental foreign policy strategy. This article examines whether, to what extent and for what reasons the European Union, with its highly developed internal environmental regime and its ambition to lead global environmental politics, possesses such a strategy. It argues that the EU has for a long time pursued a leadership-by-example approach, characterized by attributes of planning rather than a strategy, but that signs of change can nowadays be detected notably in the area of climate change. Drawing on insights from pragmatist reasoning, the article concludes by suggesting how the EU’s environmental foreign policy could develop further strategically.
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ISSN:1384-5748
1740-3898
DOI:10.1057/s41311-017-0130-0