TY - GEN A1 - Mayer, Sebastian T1 - Die EU als weltpolitischer Akteur : Anmerkungen zum Forschungsstand T1 - The European Union as a global player : comments on the state of the art in Political science N2 - The author offers a survey of recent studies on the role of the European Union in world affairs. While some theoretical and conceptual progress has been made since the 1970s and 1980s, a good deal of the current work is still largely descriptive. Only a small number of studies take factors such as culture, norms, or ideas sufficiently into account. Referring to such variables, however, promises a value added for the explanation of certain phenomena in EU external relations. With reference to IR Theory, an institutionalist approach that conceptualises ideas as an intervening variable is therefore proposed. KW - EuropƤische Union KW - AuƟenpolitik KW - Theorie der Internationalen Beziehungen KW - European Union KW - European Foreign Policy KW - International Relations Theory Y1 - 2010 UR - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/4445 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-46346 ER -