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Just a few days after the Brexit referendum, the EU heads of state and government welcomed the "Global Strategy for the European Union's Foreign and Security Policy". The document, which CFSP High Representative Federica Mogherini spent a year preparing, reads as yet another declaration of intent, calling for greater unity in the CFSP. It argues for what is at first glance an astonishingly defensive foreign policy orientation revolving around the concept of resilience. The upshot is a boost to transatlantic security relations, especially between the EU and NATO. (author's abstract)

Wenige Tage nach der Volksabstimmung in Großbritannien über den Austritt aus der EU haben die Staats- und Regierungschefs und -chefinnen die »Globale Strategie für die Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik der EU« begrüßt, mit deren Ausarbeitung sie vor einem Jahr die Hohe Vertreterin für die GASP Federica Mogherini beauftragt hatten. Das Dokument liest sich wie eine der vielen Absichtserklärungen, in denen zu mehr Einigkeit in der GASP aufgerufen wird. Es enthält ein Plädoyer für eine auf den ersten Blick erstaunlich defensive außenpolitische Gesamtausrichtung, die um den Begriff der Resilienz kreist. Die Konsequenzen dessen sind, dass die transatlantischen Sicherheitsbeziehungen, insbesondere die zwischen der EU und der Nato, Aufwind erhalten. (Autorenreferat)

The European Union's (EU's) Taiwan policies have been dominated by trade and economic concerns due to the absence of a security profile and China's insistence on Taiwan belonging to China. This neglect of a political role of the EU in East Asia is often regarded as a central strategic weakness of the EU. With a new government in office in Taiwan since 2016, Cross-Strait relations have worsened; this challenges EU's ambitions to become a strategic actor in the region. Apart from security and economy, other political aspects of bilateral relations have remained almost unnoticed in the literature. This article addresses EU's Taiwan policies from a different perspective. Instead of a hierarchic foreign policy exploration with security issues predominating, here, a multidimensional mosaic of EU's Taiwan relations is analysed breadthways. From this standpoint, one can see that EU's profile in Taiwan has increased considerably in recent years. These broadened bilateral relations may also support the EU's wider political and strategic interests in the region altogether. The EU could help Taiwan's New Southbound Policy align with EU's Association of Southeast Asian Nations strategy, and thus support a rule-based strategy in the Far East.

This book reorients the study of European foreign and security policy towards the question of democracy. Blending insights from international relations and democratic theory, it aims to enhance our understanding of the issues at stake. The main structures, the institutional setting and the procedures that govern decision-making in this domain are examined. In this way, the book supplements studies with a more traditional focus on the substance of foreign policy. What are the democratic challenges in this distinct field of policy-making?The Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) of the Europ

'Foreign Policy and Security Strategy' collects works by the late Professor Martin Wight (1913-1972), an historian and scholar of international relations. Wight conducted research on many topics, including British colonial history, European studies, international institutions, and the history of states-systems. He is nonetheless best known for his lectures about the political philosophy of international relations at the London School of Economics (1949-1961) and the University of Sussex (1961-1972). He is widely regarded as an intellectual ancestor and pathbreaker of the 'English School' of international relations, even though this term only gained currency nine years after his death