The european union foreign policy and power factors affecting its actorness: civilian power, military power and normative power

An important part of the debate on the European Union (EU) is whether the EU has an existing foreign policy, the predictability of the foreign policy and to built on what constitutes the power of its foreign policy. In parallel with these discussions, the EU as an international actor has developed foreign policy based on civil, military and normative power. Accordingly, the EU has created it strategies. This strategy parameters constitutes economic/civilians, normative and military tools. The EU is trying to indicate its effectiveness and enhance its actorness in the international system by using these tools. However, it is argued that since EU member states do not share long standing and extensive common interest, this leads to not only block agreement on creating suprenational foreign policy in the EU level, but also prevent to create collective capabilities by using these tools.