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This article explores how the EU behaves as a global power, and how the rise of illiberalism in its midst may diminish such power. We argue that the EU is more a potential than an actual superpower because its considerable hard and soft resources are not always converted into global influence. We focus on two challenges to this power conversion, which we illustrate in the areas of trade and enlargement: first, the uneven transfer of competences to the EU level and, second, the presence of illiberal regimes in the EU, which makes it more difficult to agree on common policies and tools anchored in democratic values.
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This page is a summary of: Liberal Intergovernmentalism, Illiberalism and the Potential Superpower of the European Union, JCMS Journal of Common Market Studies, September 2018, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/jcms.12793.
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