The actors in Europe's foreign policy / edited by Christopher Hill.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hill C Staff, Corporate Author.

Contributor:

Hill, Christopher, 1948-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

European Union.

International relations.

Europe--Foreign relations--1989-.

Europe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (329 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1996.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Five years ago observers might have doubted that national foreign policies would continue to be of importance: it seemed inevitable that collective European positions were becoming ever more common and effective. Now the pendulum has swung back with a vengeance. The divided European responses to the prospect of war with Iraq in 1990-91, and to the war in the Balkans have made what happens in the national capitals seem divisive.The Actors in Europe's Foreign Policy is a timely survey of the interplay between the European Union's Common Foreign and Security Policy and the long-estab

Contents:

Cover; The Actors in Europe's Foreign Policy; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Preface; Introduction: Actors and actions; Part I The major actors; Chapter 1 France: The impact of François Mitterrand; Chapter 2 Germany's role in the CFSP: 'Normalität' or 'Sonderweg'?; Chapter 3 United Kingdom: Sharpening contradictions; Chapter 4 Regional reassertion: The dilemmas of Italy; Chapter 5 Spain: The uses of foreign policy cooperation; Chapter 6 The Commission: The struggle for legitimacy; Part II The smaller countries

Chapter 7 Belgium: The importance of foreign policy to European political unionChapter 8 Denmark: A new activism in foreign and security policy; Chapter 9 Greece: The limits to convergence; Chapter 10 Ireland and common security: Stretching the limits of commitment?; Chapter 11 Luxembourg: New commitments, new assertiveness; Chapter 12 The Netherlands: The weakening pull of Atlanticism; Chapter 13 Portugal: Pressing for an open Europe; Conclusions: The European rescue of national foreign policy?; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-134-82757-1

0-203-29216-2

1-280-32515-1

1-134-82758-X

0-203-19823-9

9780203198230

OCLC:

252787087