The EU Global Strategy: Is It Global and Strategic?

... seemed to turn into conventional wisdom. Until recently, it had been taken for granted that new actors in global politics, like TNCs, NGOs and supranational institutions were overshadowing nation states. However, the course of events in the beginning of the 21 ... ... global affairs on their own terms (at least, within the boundaries of strategic autonomy of different intensity). The case of the European Union is a special one. It is not a nation state but at the same time it is not a conventional international organization....