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International Relations and the European Union

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ISBN-10: 0199273480

ISBN-13: 9780199273485

Edition: 4th 2005

Authors: Christopher Hill, Michael Smith, Christopher Hill

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This text sets out to locate the European Union in the context of International Relations theory and to explore the ways in which the European Union frames and conducts its international relations. Each chapter deals with the three key themes of the volume: the EU as a sub-system of international relations, the EU and the processes of international relations, and the EU as a power. Part I surveys the subject's roots, Part II deals with the institutions and processes of policy formation and Part III looks at the key themes of the study of the EU as an international actor.
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List price: $49.95
Edition: 4th
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/22/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 496
Size: 6.73" wide x 9.69" long x 1.07" tall
Weight: 1.892
Language: English

International Relations and the European Union: Themes and Issues
Introduction
Assumptions
Substantive assumptions
Methodological assumptions
Three perspectives on International Relations and the EU
The EU as a sub-system of International Relations
The EU and the processes of International Relations
The EU as a power in International Relations
Structure of the volume
Conclusion
Further reading
Web links
Theory and the European Union's International Relations
Introduction
Classical explanations: Federalism and neofunctionalism
European integration and IR theory
Realist views of European foreign policy
Liberal views
Alternative approaches
The role of Europe in the world
The future of European foreign policy
Notes
Further reading
Web links
The Pattern of the EU's Global Activity
Introduction
Historical evolution
Geographical scope
Africa, the Caribbean, and the Pacific
The Mediterranean
Central and Eastern Europe
The new neighbours
The Atlantic
Asia
Drivers and brakes
The general EC framework
European Political Cooperation
The Commission
Member states
The European Council
The European Parliament
Enduring tensions
Conclusions
Note
Further reading
Web links
The Institutional Framework
Introduction: institutions and why they matter
Institutions and their impact
The Common Commercial Policy
Development cooperation policy and humanitarian assistance
European foreign policy and defence cooperation
Beyond enlargement: institutional adjustments in the Constitutional Treaty
Conclusion: how and how much do institutions matter?
Notes
Further reading
Web links
Coherence and Consistency
Introduction
'Consistency' and its importance
Historical background
Categorisation
Institutional consistency-legal instruments and practices
Institutional consistency-structures
Institutional consistency-obligations
Horizontal consistency
Vertical consistency
The Constitutional Treaty
Conclusions
Notes
Further reading
Web links
Accountable and Legitimate? The EU's International Role
Introduction
The external dimension: a source of distinctive legitimation issues?
The European Parliament
Trade
Enlargement
Aid
National parliaments
Politicisation?
Standards
Conclusions
Further reading
Web links
The Europeanization of Foreign Policy
Introduction
The meanings of Europeanization
National adaptation
National projection
Identity reconstruction
Modernisation
Policy isophormism
Three dimensions of foreign policy Europeanization
Common Foreign and Security Policy vs. national foreign policies
Foreign policy analysis and Europeanization
Applying Europeanization theory to national foreign policy
Convergence vs. the logic of diversity
Conclusions
Notes
Further reading
Web links
Implementation: Making the EU's International Relations Work
Introduction: the problem of implementation in foreign policy
The EU's own resources in external relations/third countries
National resources and EU external relations
The instruments of EU foreign policy
Diplomatic capability
Economic capability
Military capability
Credibility and capability gaps
Conclusion: what kind of power does the EU possess?
Notes
Further reading
Web links
From Security to Defence: the Evolution of the CFSP
Introduction
European security and defence in theoretical perspective
From foreign policy coordination to a European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP)
European military capacity: the rhetoric and the reality
Spending patterns and defence budgets
The Helsinki Headline Goal (HHG) and European military capacity
'Headline Goal 2010'
2003: The EU becomes a military actor
Political developments and dilemmas
The 'European Security Strategy'
The 'European Union Minister for Foreign Affairs' (EUMFA)
'Structured Cooperation' and the 'Solidarity Clause'
Operational and planning issues
Procurement and defence planning
Operational planning
Intelligence
Towards a long-term vision?
Conclusions: from the short to the medium term and beyond
Notes
Further reading
Web links
The External Face of Internal Security
Introduction
The history of internal security cooperation
Post-Cold War internal security challenges
Transnational crime and drug trafficking
The challenge from terrorism
Immigration and refugees
Creating and developing the EU's Justice and Home Affairs pillar
Cooperation with third countries
The USA
States seeking accession
Policing roles in external interventions
Conclusion
Further reading
Web links
Managing Interdependence: The EU in the World Economy
Introduction
Integration and mixed economies
A new economic orthodoxy
A single currency
Trade policy-and more
An expanding agenda
An ever increasing membership
Europeanization and globalisation
Notes
Further reading
Web links
The European Union as a Trade Power
Introduction
The road to European competence in trade
The common commercial policy in the Treaty of Rome
The challenge to exclusive competence during the 1990s
From Amsterdam to Nice: a political solution to the competence dispute
Trade policy in the EU Constitutional Treaty
The EU trade policy-making process
The negotiating mandate
The negotiations
The ratification
The enlarged EU as a trade power
The EU as champion of multilateralism?
The European single market and world trade liberalisation
Settling disputes in the WTO
'Open bilateralism'? The limits of transatlantic trade cooperation
The EU's conditional support for regionalism
Conclusion: the EU as a power in and through trade
Notes
Further reading
Web links
Enlargement and European Order
Introduction
Concentric circles
The Copenhagen European Council, June 1993
The Luxembourg and Helsinki European Councils
Big-bang enlargement
Relations with south-eastern Europe
Relations with the 'wider Europe'
Conclusion
Notes
Further reading
Web links
The Shadow of Empire: The EU and the Former Colonial World
Introduction
The EU as a system of IR and within the wider international order
The Cold War
The post-Cold War order
The EU and the processes of international relations
The EU as a power in international relations
Conclusion
Notes
Further reading
Web links
The EU and Inter-regional Cooperation
Introduction
Inter-regional cooperation as part of the EU's foreign and security policy
Old and new forms of inter-regional cooperation-an historical overview
The origins-relations with Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, and ASEAN in the 1970s
Extension towards Central America and Europe in the 1980s
New regionalism after the end of the East-West divide
The EU and inter-regional cooperation in action-main features
The EU and Africa
The EU and the Mediterranean and the Gulf region
The EU and Asia
The EU and Latin America
The EU and other regional groupings in Europe
Conclusions
Notes
Further reading
Web links
The EU and the United States
Introduction
The changing shape of EU-US relations
EU-US relations and the EU's system of international relations
EU-US relations and the processes of international relations
EU-US relations and the EU as a power in international relations
Conclusion
Further reading
Web links
A European Civilising Process?
Introduction
Two images of the EU
Norbert Elias on 'the civilizing process'
A global civilising process?
The changing nature of political community in Europe
Preventing harm in world politics
Auditing the EU
Conclusions
Notes
Further reading
Web links
Acting for Europe: Reassessing the European Union's Place in International Relations
Introduction
The EU and the perspectives of international relations
Realism
Liberalism
Alternative approaches
The place of the EU in the international system
What the EU is not
The EU's positive contributions
System, process, and power
The EU as a sub-system of international relations
The EU and the general processes of international relations
The EU as a power in the world
Conclusions
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