Costa, OriolSoler i Lecha, EduardVlaskamp, Martijn2025-03-112025-03-112025Costa O, Soler i Lecha E, Vlaskamp MC, editors. EU foreign policy in a fragmenting international order. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan; c2025. 292 p. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-64060-5978-3-031-64062-9978-3-031-64059-9http://hdl.handle.net/10230/69912This open access book delves into the responses of EU actors, such as member states, institutions, and political groups in the European Parliament, to the fragmentation of the liberal international order (LIO). The analytical framework adopted in this volume explores the diverse interpretations of this phenomenon and the various political initiatives associated with them. Among these interpretations is the concept of strategic autonomy, which has emerged as a key feature of debates surrounding the EU's adaptation to a fragmented LIO. The contributors examine these dynamics across different issue areas and dimensions of EU foreign policy, encompassing the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP), external relations, and the externalization of internal policies. They use the term fragmentation to refer to a bundle of processes affecting the LIO that range from challenges to the universality of human rights to the crisis of global governance instruments, from the bifurcation of tech to protectionist tendencies in trade policies.application/pdfeng© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2025. This book is an open access publication. Open Access This book 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 book are included in the book’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the book’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.info:eu-repo/semantics/bookhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-64060-5European Union politicsEU foreign policyEU external policyInternational orderLiberal international orderFragmentationCommon foreign and security policyStrategic autonomySovereigntyinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess