Why is there a need for new approaches to EU foreign policy?

In 2014, the status of the European Union Foreign Policy (EUFP) is quite different, since new policies, instruments and institutions have been introduced in the last two decades. As the European Union (EU) has been transforming its character in the last two decades from an international organisation towards a polity in its own rights, its foreign policy has also been subject to considerable change. However, rather than focusing on institutional changes or changes in agency, the book discusses different perspectives of the new EU Foreign Policy in order to encourage debates on novel theoretical approaches that can be used to capture the evolving nature of the EU in this field. It presents a number of newer approaches to the EU Foreign Policy including the delegation approach, the parliamentarisation approach or a post-modern perspective on foreign policy, just to name a few. The book addresses some of the raised issues by mainly presenting newer approaches to EU foreign policy.