Is the European Union still an attractive international actor? Challenges for the global role of the EU
Is the European Union still an attractive international actor? Challenges for the global role of the EU

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of the article is to try to outline whether the EU is still an attractive actor in internationalrelations, which is conceptualised as a specific soft, normative and the same transformative powerand the centre of attraction for states located outside this organisation. The credibility of the European Union on international arena was undermined by global changes taking place in the 21st century,including emergence of new non-European powers, and particularly a series of crises (financial,migration, identity) that have affected the EU recently. In the article the following analysis will bemade: the basic components consisting of attractiveness of the EU and evolution of its perceptionon the international arena, and the main challenges that the EU has to cope with in order to becomea significant power again. It is assumed that the European Union certainly lost its attractiveness andprestige as a result of recent transformations that affected it within the system, but also due to thedynamics of the international environment.

• Details
• Contents