Rethinking European Union Foreign Policy

by Edited by Ben Tonra and Thomas Christiansen

• ISBN13: 9780719060014
• ISBN10: 071906001X
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2005-01-01
• Publisher: Manchester University Press

Summary

This text reviews a variety of approaches to the study of the European Union's foreign policy. Much analysis of EU foreign policy contains implicit theoretical assumptions about the nature of the EU and its member states, their inter-relationships, the international system in which they operate and the nature and direction of European integration. In many instances such assumptions, given that they are not discussed openly, curtail rather than facilitate debate. The purpose of this book is to open up this field of enquiry so that students, observers and analysts of EU foreign policy can review a broad range of tools and theoretical templates from which the development and the trajectory of the EU's foreign policy can be studied.

Author Biography

Ben Tonra is Senior Lecturer and Academic Director of the Dublin European Institute at University College Dublin. Thomas Christiansen is Jean Monnet Lecturer and Director of the Jean Monnet Centre for European Studies at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Notes on contributors	ix
List of abbreviations	xi
1 The study of EU foreign policy: between international relations and European studies
Ben Tonra and Thomas Christiansen	1	(9)
2 Theorising the European Union's foreign policy
Knud Erik Jørgensen	10	(16)
3 International relations or European integration: is the CFSP sui generis?
Jakob C. Øhrgaard	26	(19)
4 Foreign policy analysis and European foreign policy
Brian White	45	(17)
5 Discourse analysis in the study of European foreign policy
Henrik Larsen	62	(19)
6 Role identity and the Europeanisation of foreign policy: a political-cultural approach
Lisbeth Aggestam	81	(18)
7 Interests, institutions and identities in the study of European foreign policy
Adrian Hyde-Price	99	(15)
8 Theory and practice of multi-level foreign policy: the European union's policy in the field of arms export controls
Sibylle Bauer and Eric Remacle	114	(12)
9 Justifying EU foreign policy: the logics underpining EU enlargement
Helene Sjursen and Karen E. Smith	126	(16)
Bibliography	142	(25)
Index	167