The foreign affairs aspects of the Artificial Intelligence Policy of the European Union

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dc.check.date2026-05-01en
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dc.contributor.authorFidato, Riccardoen
dc.contributor.authorLonardo, Luigien
dc.date.accessioned2025-07-17T08:20:48Z
dc.date.available2025-07-17T08:20:48Z
dc.date.issued2025-05-01en
dc.description.abstractThe EU has a problem: it is lagging behind in technological developments on Artificial Intelligence (AI). To solve it, the EU does what it does best: it regulates. Is this going to be enough? To attempt an answer, this article examines the foreign affairs ramification of the EU’s AI policy, particularly through the lens of the foreign policy implications of the AI Act (Regulation (EU) 2024/1689). We cluster these foreign policy implications around three themes: areas in which the EU leads, dossiers on which it cooperates with partners, and issues on which it seeks to export its values. By drawing on literature on issue salience, we argue that this legislative initiative aligns with the EU’s broader strategy to harness its economic and regulatory power to support foreign policy goals. The contribution of this article is that it offers a policy commentary on the connection between internal and external EU policies, and on how the EU leverages its market power on the international arena at a time of increased geopolitical competition. The answer to the opening question is that EU institutions hope that regulation is enough to eventually make the EU competitive in this domain, but reality is not proving them right.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
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dc.identifier.citationFidato, R. and Lonardo, L. (2025) 'The foreign affairs aspects of the Artificial Intelligence Policy of the European Union', European Foreign Affairs Review, 30(1), pp. 11-28. DOI: 10.54648/eerr2025010en
dc.identifier.doi10.54648/eerr2025010en
dc.identifier.endpage28en
dc.identifier.issn1384-6299en
dc.identifier.issued1en
dc.identifier.journaltitleEuropean Foreign Affairs Reviewen
dc.identifier.startpage11en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/17711
dc.identifier.volume30en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherWolters Kluweren
dc.relation.ispartofEuropean Foreign Affairs Reviewen
dc.rights© 2025, the Authors. This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced version of an article accepted for publication in European Foreign Affairs Review. The published version of record [Fidato, R. and Lonardo, L. (2025) 'The foreign affairs aspects of the Artificial Intelligence Policy of the European Union', European Foreign Affairs Review, 30(1), pp. 11-28. DOI: 10.54648/eerr2025010] is available online at: https://kluwerlawonline.com/journalarticle/European+Foreign+Affairs+Review/30.1/EERR2025010en
dc.subjectExternal relationsen
dc.subjectArtificial Intelligenceen
dc.subjectInformation societyen
dc.subjectInternal marketen
dc.subjectInternational relationsen
dc.subjectResearch and developmenten
dc.subject~Law - Journal Articles~en
dc.titleThe foreign affairs aspects of the Artificial Intelligence Policy of the European Unionen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
dc.typejournal-articleen
oaire.citation.issueIssue 1en
oaire.citation.volume30en
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