Book Cover	1
	Title	4
	Copyright	5
	Contents	6
	Illustrations	8
	Contributors	10
	Preface and acknowledgements	17
	Abbreviations	19
	1 Introduction: The EU as a model, a global actor and an unprecedented power	22
	Part I The impact of the EU on global governance	62
	2 The European Union’s democratic agenda	64
	3 The international projection of the euro and the international monetary system	85
	4 EU competition policy in a global world	108
	5 The influence of the European socio-economic model in the global economy	125
	Part II EU external policies	150
	6 The EU’s external relations and their evolving legal framework	152
	7 The EU’s common commercial policy and regional/global regulation	177
	8 The EU’s common development cooperation policy	197
	9 The role of the EU in global environmental and climate governance	213
	10 The external dimension of the European Area of Freedom, Security and Justice	231
	11 Global governance: A challenge for common foreign and security policy and European security and defence policy	254
	Part III Europe as a global actor: Horizontal issues	280
	12 The EU’s neighbourhood policies	282
	13 The EU and its far-abroad: Interregional relations with other continents	304
	14 Europe in the world: Imperial legacies	329
	15 European integration and the cosmopolitan way	350
	Index	367