Library Guides: European Union: External Relations

Agencies

Committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET ). From the European Parliament.

EU Around the World. Bilateral and multilateral relations documentation between the EU and countries around the world.

European External Action. EU foreign ministry implementing the EU Common Foreign and Security Policy and other areas of external affairs.

External Relations Section. From the European Economic and Social Committee. Fosters civil society relations with countries in the African, Caribbean, Pacific Group of States, Asia, and Latin America.

Commission for Citizenship, Governance, Institutional Affairs and External Relations (CIVEX). From the Committee on the Regions. Assists with the Union's external dimension, focusing on neighborhood and enlargement countries.

EU Bookshop. Browse or search - multiple categories under defence.

European Institute for Security Studies (ISS). EU agency dealing with the analysis of foreign, security and defence policy issues.

European Union Satellite Centre (EUSC). Supports EU decision-making by providing analysis of satellite imagery and collateral data.

European Defence Agency (EDA). Supports the European Council and Member States to improve EU defence via cooperative projects and programs.

Infohub - News, press releases, publications.
Defence Data

EU Legislation on Foreign Affairs and Security. Summaries of Legislation from Eur-Lex.

EU Legislation on External Relations. Summaries of Legislation from Eur-Lex.

Publications

The European Union and Military Force
The Common Security and Defence Policy maps out how the EU established primarily to be an economic organisation can purposefully prepare for and apply the use of military force. In this work the author argues that, since the EU is not a state but does embody some non-intergovernmental characteristics, neither EU studies nor strategic studies is sufficient for fully understanding the Policy itself.
European Union as a Global Conflict Manager
In recent years the European Union (EU) has played an increasingly important role as a manager of global conflicts. This book provides a comprehensive assessment of how the EU has performed in facilitating mediation, conflict resolution and peacebuilding across the globe.
The Middle East Peace Process and the EU
In the post-9/11 era, the EU has attempted to shape itself into, and certainly has aspirations of being, a key foreign and security policy actor in international politics. Here, Taylan Özgür Kaya looks at how this is enacted, with particular reference to the EU's role in the Middle East Peace Process.

Treaties and External Agreements

EU Treaties and Agreements Database. Information on EU multilateral agreements, including those in the process.

Directory of International Agreements. Access to the agreements concluded by the European Communities by official classification.

International Agreements. Access to international agreements by subject(via Eur-Lex)

Treaties Office Database of the European Commission. Bilateral and multilateral treaties or agreements concluded by the EU and its predecessors.

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