Description
Book SynopsisShows the increasing importance of a controversial 'EU foreign policy', discussing how its agenda is forged and detailing the resulting actions taken.
Trade Review'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 characterised by polemics and special pleading' -- Commissioner Chris Patten
'Indispensable for students and scholars alike' -- Professor Chris Hill, London School of Economics
Table of ContentsDedication
Introduction
1. Does the European Union have a foreign policy?
2. Laying the groundwork: 1945-1968
3. Institutionalising 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?
Abbreviations and glossary
Bibliography
Index
