ABOUT BOOK

"There is a gap in IR and EU scholarship concerning unintended ~consequences in an international context, leaving this important ~phenomenon understudied. To fill this gap, a conceptualisation of ~unintended consequences is offered, and a set of common ~research questions are presented, highlighting the nature (what), ~the causes (why) and the modes of management (how) of unintended ~consequences of EU external action. The Special Issue ~contributes to the study of the EU as an international actor by ~broadening the notion of the EU’s impact abroad to include the ~unintended consequences of EU (in)actions and by shedding new ~light on the conceptual paradigms that explain EU external action."