The Actors in Europe's Foreign Policy

by Hill,Christopher

• ISBN13: 9780415122238
• ISBN10: 0415122236
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1996-08-30
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Five years ago observers might have doubted that national foreign policies would continue to be of importance: it seemed inevitable that collective European positions were becoming ever more common and effective. Now the divided European responses to the prospect of war with Iraq in 1990-91 and to the war in the Balkans have made what happens in the national capitals seem divisive. The Actors in Europe's Foreign Policy is a timely survey of the interplay between the European Union's Common Foreign and Security Policy and the long-established national foreign policies of the Union's Member-States. The book contains a chapter on each country in the Union as well as a chapter on the United States in its role as the "thirteenth seat at the table"'. There is also a chapter on the European Commission, whose role in the external relations of the Community steadily grew during the 1980's.

Table of Contents

List of contributors	vii	(2)
Preface	ix
Introduction: actors and actions	1	(18)
Christopher Hill
William Wallace
Part I The major actors	19	(132)
1 France: the impact of Francois Mitterrand	19	(21)
Francoise de La Serre
2 Germany's role in the CFSP: `Normalitat' or `Sonderweg'?	40	(28)
Reinhardt Rummel
3 United Kingdom: sharpening contradictions	68	(22)
Christopher Hill
4 Regional reassertion: the dilemmas of Italy	90	(18)
Gianni Bonvicini
5 Spain: the uses of foreign policy cooperation	108	(22)
Esther Barbe
6 The Commission: the struggle for legitimacy	130	(21)
Simon Nuttall
Part II The smaller countries	151	(137)
7 Belgium: the importance of foreign policy to European political union	151	(15)
Christian Franck
8 Denmark: a new activism in foreign and security policy	166	(20)
Bertel Heurlin
9 Greece: the limits to convergence	186	(22)
Panos Tsakaloyannis
10 Ireland and common security: stretching the limits of commitment?	208	(18)
Patrick Keatinge
11 Luxembourg: new commitments, new assertiveness	226	(21)
Pierre-Louis Lorenz
12 The Netherlands: the weakening pull of Atlanticism	247	(21)
Alfred Pijpers
13 Portugal: pressing for an open Europe	268	(20)
Alvaro de Vasconcelos
Conclusions: the European rescue of national foreign policy?	288	(17)
David Allen
Index	305