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What type of actor is the EU, Politics - Coggle Diagram

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        The political layer of the 'international' is formed by the complex web of interrelations that bind actors together. Diplomacy is the traditional but critical expression of the existence of such a web, ...
        three directions:
        a. the domestic politics of states ... becomes a factor in this interdependence, affecting other actors thorough their foreign policies and sometimes also their own domestic politics
        b. the progressive formation of a 'global public sphere' means that political interdependence gradually comes to feature processes of normative adjudication and contestation
        a variety of actors, state and non-state, participate in the interdependence that makes up the political layer of the 'international. However, this does not happen in a condition of parity, as states still express their agency throughj channels that are far more institutionalised, accountable, and varied than those at disposal of non-state actors
        
        Domestic Politics Influence Foreign Policy: States' internal political dynamics affect their foreign policies, which, in turn, impact other actors and sometimes even their own domestic affairs.
        
        Emergence of a Global Public Sphere: As global interconnectedness grows, there's a gradual emergence of a global public sphere where normative judgments and disagreements occur, influencing political interdependence.
        
        Role of State and Non-state Actors: While both state and non-state actors participate in global politics, states maintain a dominant position due to their more institutionalized and accountable channels of influence compared to non-state actors.
        
        overlap with the social and normative layer....Diplomacy is one of the key institutions ... Norms are another important component, in both their more codified version (international law) and their informal variety (customs). More generally, this is the level at which ethical concerns play themselves out. The exstent to which these have come to affect foreign policy is nowhere more apparent than in the wave of 'humanitarian interventions'that was initiated in the early 1990s. This practicve provides evidence that foreign policy must now confront an environment that has elements of society- and a societycomposed of individuals and social movements as well as states.
        
        The economic layer is even more pluralistic in its inclusion of a variety of actors of different nature. Here the superority states enjoy far less marked than at the political level, partly because of the less hierarchical nature of economic transactions and partly because economic interdependence has often thrived irrespective of the internationalpolitical systems. However, economic issues are constantly susceptible to being highly politicized
        
        the existence of patterns of military alignments, both cooperative and adversiarial. according to some theories of IR, this is the layer that is ultimately the most significant in foreign polict terms. While this may be true in the sense that military affairs carry with them the greatest threat, that of physical annihilation, security problems are usually multifacteted and often derivateive of political, economic, or cultural conflicts. Still, the asymmetrical distributiion of military power, and in particular of nuculear weapons, is a major fact for foreign policy makers in all states
        
        There uis an important cultural dimension to the 'international' that decision makers cannot afford to leave out in their effort to implement foreign policy objectives. This is due, to the forced contiguity among differtent culture4s brought about by globalisation, and on the other hand, to the decline of that modern paradigm that marginalised all forms of culture (religion in primis), confining them to the rrealm of the private. Foreign policy now finds itself dealing with these issues as priorities, and with the complications produced by their entanglement with all the remaining dimensions