The export of the fight against organized crime policy model and the EU’s international actorness

The European Union (EU) has developed several types of policies towards third states ranging from economic policy to foreign and security policy. Despite the fact that the EU is not a traditional unitary actor with a stable set of preferences and that the EU’s interests, institutional arrangements and intervening actors differ from policy to policy, the EU has promoted its internal policy models towards the external environment. The impact of the EU’s internal policy models on its role as an international actor is a growing mainstream in integration studies.