Institutional competences in the EU external action: actors and boundaries in CFSP/ESDP

Abstract:

The development of institutional competencies within the EU’s external action in general, and in the framework of the Common Foreign and Security Policy and European Security and Defence Policy in particular, have brought questions concerning the division of roles between the different actors to the fore. Meanwhile, as ambition has increased so has expectations.

This volume contains two new reports and an introduction in which this development is examined and where challenges to the consistency in the field of EU external representation and action are identified.