Paradoxes of European Foreign Policy

1. Auflage 1998
ISBN: 978-90-411-0571-4
Verlag: Wolters Kluwer

Buch, Englisch, 192 Seiten, GB, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 426 g

The European Union's foreign policy is full of paradoxes. The Union aspires to be a powerful international actor without becoming a super-state. It hopes to prevent and manage conflicts, but refrains from acquiring the military means to do so. It embarks on the project of widening its borders, but continues its deepening project which makes the entrance hurdles for applicant countries ever higher. It wishes to maintain strong transatlantic links, but continues to build institutions that make the EU more independent from--if not competitive with--the United States.

In this stimulating book, distinguished European and American intellectuals offer solutions to imperative but unanswered questions:

How can the Union's enormous normative `power of attraction' combined with its operational weakness be explained?

Can the Union remain a `civilian power' when coping with an `uncivilized' world?

Can a European foreign policy get off the ground without prior emergence of a European demos?

Are national policies within the Union increasingly convergent or divergent?

And how can the Union's international performance be assessed?

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zielonka, Jan

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Europäische Union, Europapolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface; Y. Mény.
Introduction: Constraints, Opportunities and Choices in European Foreign Policy; J. Zielonka.
I. The European Union: A New Type of International Actor; R. Rosecrance.
II. A Foreign Policy in Search of a Polity; J.-M. Guéhenno.
III. Convergence, Divergence and Dialectics: National Foreign Policies and the CFSP; C. Hill.
IV. Identifying Institutional Paradoxes of CFSP; R. Rummerl, J. Wiedemann.
V. The Instruments of European Union Foreign Policy; K.E. Smith.
VI. The European Union's Performance in World Politics: How Should We Measure Success? K.E. Jørgenson.
VII. Defining the European Security Policy; G. Lenzi.
VIII. Balancing Europe's Eastern and Southern Dimensions; E. Barbé.
IX. Policies without Strategy: the EU's Record in Eastern Europe; J. Zielonka.
X. From the European Union to the Atlantic Union; C.A. Kupchan.
List of Contributors.
Index.