Communicating Europe in Times of Crisis - External Perceptions of the European Union

The EU views itself as an important actor on the world stage, a perspective supported by the role it plays in global politics. This collection presents a true reflection of the EU as an international actor by exploring how it is viewed externally and the impact that events like the Eurozone debt crisis have had on external perceptions of the EU.

Ole Elgström, Lund University, Sweden Sonia Lucarelli, University of Bologna, Italy Clarisse Didelon-Loiseau, Le Havre University, France Claude Grasland, University Paris Diderot, France May-Britt U. Stumbaum, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany Jessica Bain, University of Leicester, UK Svetlana Beltyukova, University of Toledo, Ohio, USA Sharon Pardo, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU), Israel Ketevan Bolkvadze, University of Gothenburg, Sweden Martin Müller University of Zurich, Switzerland Veit Bachmann, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Germany Christiane Timmerman, University of Antwerp, Belgium Helene Marie-Lou De Clerck University of Antwerp in Belgium Kenneth Hemmerechts, Free University of Brussels in Etterbeek (VUB), Belgium Roos Willems, University of Antwerp, Belgium