International Relations of the European Union

by Wyn Rees

• ISBN13: 9781412947534
• ISBN10: 1412947537
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-07-15
• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd

Summary

From its beginnings as a trading organization the European Union (EU) has become an immensely important actor in the international system. This collection distils the very best writings, both classic and contemporary, in the field of its international relations across a range of policy fields. The selected articles and chapters reflect the breadth of the EU's activities in the world, including its economic and security relationships, as well as its unique status in the academic study of international relations.The SAGE Library of International Relations brings together the most influential and field-defining articles, both classical and contemporary, in a number of key areas of research and inquiry in International Relations.Each multi-volume set represents a collection of the essential published works collated from the foremost publications in the field by an editor or editorial team of renowned international stature.They also include a full introduction, presenting a rationale for the selection and mapping out the discipline's past, present and likely future.This series is designed to be a 'gold standard' for university libraries throughout the world with an interest in International Relations.

Table of Contents

History and Theory

History: European Integration, the Changing World Arena And The EC/EU as an International Actor

International Integration: The European and the universal

Obstinate or Obsolete? The Fate of the Nation State and the Case of Western Europe

Europe's Role in World Peace

European Political Cooperation: Procedure as a substitute for policy

The Exercise of International Civil Power: A framework for analysis

Civilian Power Europe: A contradiction in terms

The European Defense Community the European Political Community and the ECSC Loan

The European Union: A new type of international actor

Theory: Perspectives on European Integration and International Relations

Western Europe's Presence in the Contemporary International Arena

The European Union and a Changing Europe: Establishing the boundaries of order

European Security Identities

Conceptualising The European Union as an International Actor: Narrowing the capabilities-expectations gap

The European Challenge to Foreign Policy Analysis

Europe: Regional laboratory for a global polity?

Normative Power Europe: A contradiction in terms?

Toward a Theory of EU Foreign Policy-Making: Multilevel governance, domestic politics and national adaptation to Europe's common foreign and security policy

ESDP and The Structure of World Power

Normative Dynamics and Strategic Interests in the EU's External Identity

Beyond the Civilian Power EU Debate

Conceptualising the EU Model of Governance in World Politics

International Political Economy

European Integration and The Changing World Economy

1992: Recasting the European bargain

The Adaptation of European Foreign Economic Policy: From Rome to Seattle

Trade and Commercial Policy

The European Acquis and Multilateral Trade Rules: Are they compatible?

What Happened to Fortress Europe? External trade policy liberalization in the European Union

"Issue-Systems", "Multi-Level Games" and the Analysis of the EU's External Commercial and Associated Policies: A research agenda

Who Speaks for Europe? The delegation of trade authority in the EU

The 1999 Cap Reform, the Uruguay Round and the Commission: Contextualising linked policy games

International Monetary Policy

The EMU and International Monetary Relations: What to expect for international actors?

Monetary Sovereignty over the Euro and External Relations of the Euro Area: Competence, procedures and practice

Between National Sovereignty and International Power: What external voice for the Euro?

Europe, the United States, and Neo-Liberal (Dis)Order: Is there a coming crisis of the Euro?

Aid and Development Policy

The Community and Developing Countries: Associates and outsiders

The Future of Lomé: Europe's Role in Africa's Growth

The European Union's Relations with the South: A commitment to development?

Lome and Post-Lome: Asymmetric Negotiations and the Impact of Norms

Resisting Reform or Risking Revival? Renegotiating the Lomé Convention

The Changing Agenda: Environment, competition, technology, investment

The European Union as an Actor in International Environmental Politics

Building an International Identity: The EU and Extraterritorial Competition Policy

No More Euro-Champions? The Interaction of EU Industrial and Trade Policies

Eu Foreign, Security and Defence Policy

CFSP and Defence since 1990: Institutions and policy-making

EC: Confidence lost

The Capability-Expectations Gap, or Conceptualising Europe's International Role

Two Decades of EPC Performance

Beyond the EU/NATO Dichotomy: The beginnings of a European strategic culture

European Defence and the Changing Politics of the European Union: Hanging together or hanging separately?

The New CFSP and ESDP Decision-Making System of the European Union

The European Union as a Diplomatic Actor: Internal, traditional and structural diplomacy

Foreign, Security Policy and Defence in Action

Europe's Uncommon Foreign Policy

The European Union as an International Actor: The issues of flexibility and linkage

Europe's Strategic Ambitions: The limits of ambiguity

From Crisis to Catharsis: ESDP after Iraq

The European Security Strategy: An evolutionary history

The External Politics of Internal Security

Wearing it Inside Out: European police cooperation between internal and external security

The European Union and the Securitisation of Migration

The External Dimension of Europeanization: The case of immigration policies

The European Union as an International Actor in the Domain of Justice and Home Affairs

The Changing Agenda of Foreign and Security Policy: Conflict Prevention, Crisis Management, Human Rights

The EU's Capacity for Conflict Prevention

The EU and Crisis Management: Development and Prospects

Speaking with One Voice? European Union coordination on human rights issues at the United Nations

The Eu in the World Arena: Key Relationships

Transatlantic Relations

Power and Weakness: Why the United States and Europe see the world differently

America as a European Power: The end of empire by integration?

Contending Cultures of Counter-Terrorism: Transatlantic divergence or convergence?

The New Transatlantic Agenda at Ten: Reflections on an experiment in international governance

The Expanding Europe and its Neighbours

Europe and the Middle East: Power by stealth?

The European Union and Turkey

A Wider Europe: The view from Moscow and Kyiv

Eastern Enlargement: Risk, Rationality and role compliance

The EU and Common Strategies: The revealing case of the Mediterranean

Why Expand? The Question of Legitimacy and Justification in yhe European Union's Enlargement Policy

The Geopolitical Implications of the European Neighbourhood Policy

Asia, Africa and Latin America

Japan and the European Union: Reluctant Partners

Evaluating the EU-Asem Relationship: A negotiated order approach

The EU and China

Perspectives for a New Regionalism: Relations between the EU and the Mercosur

Promoting Democracy, Preventing Conflict: The European Union and Africa

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