These video-lectures provide for an overview of the foreign policy of the European Union with a specific
focus on the historical events, institutional aspects and latest developments occurred in the last decades
which have been contributing to crafting a more incisive role of the EU at global level.
In light of the latest developments, these video-lectures offer the tools to analyse the current challenges
the European Union is deemed to address acting as a unique global actor. The analysis of the European
foreign policy considers the historical steps that brought to the introduction of a Common Foreign and
Security Policy (CFSP), the institutional structure of its decision-making process, the legal framework and
peculiarities of its method. A specific section of this course deepens the economic domain and the role of
the EU in the current international panorama characterised by multi-sectoral crises, power imbalances
and new equilibria in light of the most recent international events.