This book fosters critical reflection on Europe's place in a fast-changing global environment, covering the soft and hard facets of EU power along the spectrum of low politics-high politics.

Thomas Hoerber is Professor for European Studies and holds a Jean Monnet Chair in European Studies. He directs the EU*Asia Institute at ESSCA School of Management (Angers).

Alexandre Bohas is Professor in International Affairs at ESSCA School of Management on the Aix-en-Provence campus and a research associate at CERGAM, Aix-Marseille Université.

Stefano Valdemarin is Associate Professor in International Business and Strategy at ESSCA School of Management (Lyon) and holds a PhD in Management Sciences from the University of Lyon.

Introduction

Thomas Hoerber, Alexandre Bohas and Stefano Valdemarin

Chapter 1 EU-Russia Relations and the Ukraine Conflict

Marco Siddi

Chapter 2 Transatlantic Relations Now and Then: In Search of a Balance between "America First" and "America Is Back"

Anna Dimitrova

Chapter 3 Everything but Arms: The European Commission and Its Geopolitical Discourse on Preferential Trade for "the Most In Need"

Antonio Salvador M. Alcazar III

Chapter 4 The EU in the Nuclear Iranian Case: Its Role in the Negotiations and Its Significance within International Relations Theories

Pierre-Marie Vague

Chapter 5 Between Low Politics and Soft Power: EU's Inter-regional Relations with Mercosur

Bruno Theodore Luciano and Cairo Gabriel Borges Junqueira

Chapter 6 Institutional Process and Dispute Negotiations: An International Relations/International Law Approach of EU's Relations with North Macedonia

Ioanna Bantouna

Chapter 7 European Monetary Policy in a Globalized World: From Low to High Politics

Jürgen Kaehler and Christoph Weber

Chapter 8 What Type of Actor? The EU's Strategy for Cooperation in the Indo-Pacific

Gorana Grgi¿

Chapter 9 How to Use Paradiplomacy in the EU Foreign Policymaking? Opportunities, Mechanisms, Limitations

Tomasz Kami¿ski and Joanna Ciesielska-Klikowska

Chapter 10 Beyond the Dichotomy of Hard and Soft Power: A Case Study of the EU's Naval Engagement in te Indo-Pacific Region

Gao Xinchuchu and Chen Xuechen

Conclusion

Stefano Valdemarin, Alexandre Bohas and Thomas Hoerber

Index