Chapter 1
EU Global Actorness in a World of Contested Leadership: Policies, Instruments and Perceptions Maria Raquel Freire, Paula Duarte Lopes, Daniela Nascimento, Lic?nia Sim?o...................1
Chapter 2
Unpacking the EU's international actorness: debates, theories and concepts Lic?nia Sim?o.....................................................................................................10
Part I: Actorness across EU Policy Areas
Chapter 3
The added value of European diplomacy for EU regional and international actorness Heidi Maurer.................................................................................................26
Chapter 4
Global player status? EU actorness and democracy promotion Anna Khakee.................................................................................................39
Chapter 5
Securing peace through humanitarian action: The EU response to complex emergenciesDaniela Nascimento.........................................................................................54
Chapter 6
Taking its rightful place? Legitimising discourse and EU actorness in the nexus of trade and regulationElitsa Garnizova.............................................................................................68
Chapter 7
The EU actorness in the security field: The case of Georgia Shu Uchida...................................................................................................82
Part II: EU Regional Actorness
Chapter 8
The EU in the wider Caspian: actorness and social limits of recognition Elham Gharji.................................................................................................95
Chapter 9
The EU and North Africa, or the actorness of the possible Nizar Messari..............................................................................................106
Chapter 10
An asset or liability: Turkey's potential in availing EU global actorness Erhan Doğan and H. Deniz Gen?........................................................................120
Chapter 11
Global Giant, Regional Dwarf? Perceptions of EU Actorness in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan Zhanibek Arynov...........................................................................................134
Chapter 12
Russia vis-?-vis the European Union: perceptions and perspectives for cooperation Larisa Deriglazova........................................................................................150
Part III: External Views on EU Actorness
Chapter 13
Brazilian perspectives on EU global actorness in the case of digital technologies regulation and internet governance: an opportunity to improve mutual relations? Andrea Ribeiro Hoffmann and Paula Sandrin.........................................................168
Chapter 14
The European Union as A Global Actor: An Indian Perspective Rajan Kumar.........................................................................................................................182
Chapter 15
China's considerations and perceptions about the EU Dingding Chen, Yu Xia, Junrong Chen, Hengyi Yang..............................................194
Chapter 16
'S/he who pays the piper': Examining the (de)legitimising influence of European Union's financial support to the African Union Babatunde Fagbayibo...