European Union foreign policy : what it is and what it does / Hazel Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, Hazel, 1954-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International economic relations.

European Union countries.

European Union countries--Politics and government.

European Union countries--Foreign economic relations.

European Union countries--Foreign relations.

Europe--Foreign relations--1989-.

Europe.

European Union.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (312 p.)

Place of Publication:

London ; Sterling, Va. : Pluto Press, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

'This is a practical and informative account of what the European Union actually does in the world, and how it goes about it. I welcome Hazel Smith's level-headed contribution to a literature too often characterized by polemics and special pleading.' Commissioner Chris Patten 'Indispensable for students and scholars alike.' Professor Chris Hill, London School of Economics As the European Union is not a nation state, it is not generally perceived to have a foreign policy. However, Hazel Smith argues that quite the reverse is true: that an over-emphasis on procedure and structures has disguised the fact that the EU has a clear foreign policy that can be analyzed in much the same way as that of the sovereign state. Conventional assessments of the EU focus on the mechanisms, institutions and treaties through which policies are implemented. Smith shows how this can lead to a massive underestimation of the capacities of the EU. Rather than concentrating on how the policy of the EU is made, Smith investigates the action that it has engaged in abroad, and the nature of its diverse global interventions - in relation to the United States and the industrialized North, the various regions of the South and, most recently, its huge involvement in east and central Europe and the entire European continent. Developing a pathbreaking geo-issue area analysis of the nature of EU foreign policy, this comprehensive account shows how the EU can be very effective indeed in promoting its own domestic interests abroad.

Contents:

1. Does the European Union have a foreign policy?

2. Laying the groundwork, 1945-68

3. Institutionalising European Union foreign policy

4. How it works in practice

5. The European Union and the north

6. The European Union and the neighbouring south

7. The European Union and the distant south

8. The European Union in the new Europe

9. Guns or butter?

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 276-280) and index.

ISBN:

9781849641364

1849641366

OCLC:

654106205