Understanding European foreign policy / Brian White.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

White, Brian, 1947-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Europe--Foreign relations--1945-.

Europe.

International relations.

European cooperation.

Security, International.

Local Subjects:

Europe--Foreign relations--1945-.

Physical Description:

xi, 196 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave, 2001.

Summary:

Europe is becoming an increasingly important economic superpower and its foreign policy now has a massive impact on every part of the globe. But Europe is not a state nor does it have a conventional government, so who controls its foreign policy and how are decisions made and implemented? Why does European foreign policy sometimes fail spectacularly, as in its attempts to stabilize the former Yugoslavia through the 1990s?

In this important new book, Brian White argues that European foreign policy is not just the sum total of the individual foreign policies of the fifteen member states of the European Union. It also includes the foreign policy of the Union -- since the Maastricht Treaty, the EU's 'Common Foreign and Security Policy' -- and the foreign economic policy or 'external relations' of the European Community. All three dimensions are examined here using a common framework to provide an integrated account of the nature of European foreign policy at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

Contents:

1 Europe and the World 1

European Cooperation and Integration: From Dunkirk to Amsterdam 4

Key EU Institutions Outlined 11

What is 'Europe'? 18

The Approach and the Structure of the Book 23

2 Making Sense of Europe's Global Role 27

Contending Approaches 27

The Adaptability of Foreign Policy Analysis 32

What is European Foreign Policy? 36

An FPA Framework of Analysis 39

3 External Relations: Community Foreign Policy 47

Actors and Policy-making 50

Capabilities and Instruments 53

Community Foreign Policy in Action: The Community and the GATT 58

Process 61

4 European Political Cooperation 71

Actors and Policy-making 74

Capabilities and Instruments 80

European Political Cooperation in Action: The Community and South Africa 84

Actors and Policy-making 86

5 From EPC to CFSP: Union Foreign Policy 94

Actors and Policy-making 97

Capabilities and Instruments 102

CFSP in Action: The EU and the Former Yugoslavia 106

Process and Action 110

6 The Europeanization of National Foreign Policies: The Case of Britain 118

Britain: The Exceptional Case? 119

Actors and Policy-making 127

Capabilities and Instruments 131

A Europeanized British Foreign Policy? 134

New Labour, New Europeans? 136

7 Security and Defence: Towards a Common European Defence Policy? 142

Towards a Common European Defence Policy? 143

Security, Defence and Actorness 152

8 After Maastricht and Amsterdam: A Common European Foreign Policy? 156

Actors and Policy-making 159

Capabilities and Instruments 161

Towards a Common European Foreign Policy? 162

The View from Foreign Policy Analysis 166

9 European Foreign Policy and Foreign Policy Analysis 170

Foreign Policy Analysis in Crisis? 171

Foreign Policy Analysis and the State 173

Foreign Policy Analysis, Identity and Social Meanings 174

Foreign Policy Analysis, Ideas and the Formulation of Policy 177.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-190) and index.

ISBN:

0333949889

0333949897

OCLC:

44972190