ABSTRACT
This chapter is intended to apply the concept of “linkage power” to the European Union and develop an analytical framework to analyze the “Linkage Power Europe”. This analytical framework builds upon and operationalizes two concepts – “power” and “linkage” in the context of the EU's bilateral relations. First, I study the EU's power resources, and classify them into three categories: political-strategic, economic and institutional power resources, which are to be defined separately and then applied to the EU's internal and external relations. Secondly, I study different types of EU's linkages, which is to be defined individually and applied to the EU's internal and external relations. I also explore the EU's motivations for linkage. Thirdly, I evaluate the EU's linkage power, building upon Ginsberg's model.
