Costa, OriolSoler i Lecha, EduardVlaskamp, Martijn2025-03-072025-03-072025Costa O, Soler i Lecha E, Vlaskamp MC. EU foreign policy and the fragmentation of the international order: a framework for analysis. In: Costa O, Soler i Lecha E, Vlaskamp MC, editors. EU foreign policy in a fragmenting international order. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan; c2025. p. 1-25. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-64060-5_1978-3-031-64059-9978-3-031-64062-9http://hdl.handle.net/10230/69851The liberal international order (LIO) is fragmenting—there is pushback against liberal universalism, spheres of influence are back, and the shortening of value chains is explicitly planned for. By itself an integration-through-law project born within the logic of the LIO, the EU has recorded such changes in its foreign policy. This chapter sketches a research agenda over the ways in which the fragmentation of the LIO has impacted (the politics of) EU foreign policy. How have intra-EU debates registered this process? What are the strategies deployed by the EU in the face of the changing and fragmenting landscape of global governance? We propose interrogating this plurality of responses by identifying three broad approaches to EU foreign policy (nationalism, Atlanticism and Europeanism), and then differentiate between two different reactions to a fragmenting liberal international order, depending on whether one prefers to embrace fragmentation, or rather rejects to act according to its logic.application/pdfeng© The Author(s) 2025. This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this chapter are included in the chapter’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the chapter’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder.Relacions internacionalsUnió Europea, Països de la -- Relacions exteriorsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/bookParthttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-64060-5_1info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess