Explains why the EU interacts and intervenes beyond its borders, using case studies to present a theory of practice-driven action.

Magnus Ekengren is Professor of Political Science at the Swedish Defence University in Stockholm and Visiting Professor at the College of Europe, Belgium. He is a former Swedish diplomat and was previously Deputy Director at the Policy Planning Unit of the Swedish Foreign Ministry. His publications include The Politics of Security Sector Reform: Challenges and Opportunities for the Eropean Union's Global Role, co-edited with G. Simons (2011), and The European Union as Crisis Manager: Patterns and Prospects, with A. Boin and M. Rhinard (Cambridge, 2013).

1. Explaining EU foreign policy action: turning to practice; 2. Outline of a theory of translocal EU foreign policy action; 3. The EU's translocal actions in Kosovo 1999; 4. The EU's translocal actions in the Haitian disaster 2010; 5. Toward a theory of the translocal recognition cycle; Appendix I: my research practice over time; Appendix II: list of interviewees; Appendix III: interview guidelines for Haiti study.