Ingo Peters is Associate Professor of Political Science at the Freie Universität Berlin and Executive Director of the Center for Transnational Relations, Foreign and Security Policy, Germany.

Introduction: The European Union's Foreign Policy 'Actorness and Power': Foundations of and Challenges for a Comparative Research Design Ingo Peters Part 1 Foreign Economic Policy 2 IMF Reform Negotiations in the G20: Comparing Actorness and Power in the Foreign Financial Policies of the EU, the US and ASEAN Steffen Murau and Kilian Spandler 3 The EU in Global Chemicals Governance Katja Biedenkopf 4 The External Reach of the EU Regulatory State: Norway, Russia and the Security of Natural Gas Supplies Nick Sitter and Svein S. Andersen Part 2 Common Foreign and Security Policy/ Peace- and State-building5 The European Union and the Balkan Wars:
Zivilmacht Europa and the "Problem from Hell" Adrian G. V. Hyde-Price6EU Performance As A Regional Security Actor: Comparing ENP South to NATO's MENA Policy Pernille Rieker 7 The EU and the US Reactions to the Arab Spring 2011: (New) Response to a Changing Middle East and North Africa Assem Dandashly Part 3 Crisis Management, Missions and Operations8 State-Building and Police Reform in Afghanistan:EU and US Engagement in Comparative Perspective Dinoj Kumar Upadhyay and Maria Pawelec 9 The European Union's Foreign Policy in Comparative Perspective: The EU and the US in the Sahel Ronja Kempin, Ronja Scheler, and Stefan Steinicke10 Building a Comprehensive Approach "Bottom Up": A Systematic Comparison of the EU's, the US' and NATO's Strategies for Providing Security to the Horn of Africa Bjørn Olav Knutsen and Eirik Dønjar11 The European Union, the United Nations and the United States Missions and Operations in the Democratic Republic of Congo in Comparative Perspective Ingo Peters and Madina Diallo Conclusions: Actorness and Power of the European Union in Comparative Perspective Ingo Peters