Many politicians as much as pertinent experts consider the project of foreign-policy integration ‘the’ EU integration project of and for the 21 century. However, the external relations of the EU comprise numerous and very different policies: Common Foreign and Security Policy/ European Security and Defence Policy, relations to other countries or regions like the EU's policy towards the US, Russia, China as well as relations towards Africa, Latin-America, South or East Asia (ASEAN), European Neighbourhood Policy, trade, international environmental or energy policy etc. However, what are the actual accomplishments and shortcomings on the policy-making level? How far are ambitions and practices apart? Russia’s war on Ukraine questions the very premises of European security after 1990, and it will most likely reinvigorate the EU’s integration efforts in the CFSP realm. While these events are much to recent to tell what the implication will be in detail, we will consider them in our analyses of various policy areas in the course of this seminar. Furthermore, we will use and practice a specific analytical approach to study and evaluate the success and/or failure of EU's foreign policy. Schließen