Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : EU's foreign policy through the lenses of discourse analysis / Caterina Carta and Jean-Frederic Morin -- Speaking Europe, drawing boundaries : reflections on the role of discourse in EU foreign policy and identity / Thomas Diez -- Continuity or change in national foreign policy discourses post-Lisbon? : the case of Denmark / Henrik Larsen -- EU external action on counter-terrorism : a discourse theory approach / Beste Isleyne -- Constructing European diplomacy in a changing world / Knud Erik J²rgensen -- "A boost to our economies that doesn't cost a cent" : EU trade policy discourse since the crisis / Jan Orbie and Ferdi De Ville -- Model, player or instrument for global governance : metaphors in the discourse and practice of EU foreign policy / Esther Barbe, Anna Herranz-Surralles and Michal Natorski -- Unravelling European Union foreign policy through critical discourse analysis : guidelines for research / Senem Aydin-Dèuzgit -- (De-)constructing the EU as a civilising power : CFSP/CSDP and the constitutional debate in Poland and France / Amelie Kutter -- Talking about solidarity and security in the age of crisis : the revival of nationalism and protectionism in the European Union : a discourse-historical approach / Ruth Wodak and Salomi Boukala -- From the "magnificent castle" to the brutish state of nature : use of metaphors and the analysis of the EU's international discourse / Caterina Carta -- The EU's normative power and three modes of liberal communicative discourse / Ben Rosamond -- Understanding "constructive ambiguity" of European defence policy : a discursive institutionalist perspective / Antoine Rayroux -- EU leaders' ideas and discourse in the Eurozone crisis : a discursive institutionalist analysis / Vivien A. Schmidt.

Leading scholars in discourse analysis and european foreing policy join forces in this book, marking a real breakthrough in the literature. Not only do they offer original perspectives on European foreing policy, but they bring together various on fereign policy discourses that remain too often isolated from each other.