International Relations and the European Union,9780199273485

International Relations and the European Union

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ISBN13: 9780199273485
ISBN10: 0199273480
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Pub. Date: 2005-12-22
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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Summary

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.

Author Biography


Christopher Hill is Sir Patrick Sheehy Professor of and Director of the Centre of International Studies at the University of Cambridge. Michael Smith is Jean Monnet Professor of Euopean Politics at Loughborough University. Current research interests include European-American relations since 1945, European Community external policy making, and the role of the European Union in a changing European order, as well as general topics in international relations and policy making.

Table of Contents

International Relations and the European Union: Themes and Issues
3(15)
Introduction
4(1)
Assumptions
5(2)
Substantive assumptions
6(1)
Methodological assumptions
6(1)
Three perspectives on International Relations and the EU
7(6)
The EU as a sub-system of International Relations
8(1)
The EU and the processes of International Relations
9(2)
The EU as a power in International Relations
11(2)
Structure of the volume
13(2)
Conclusion
15(1)
Further reading
16(1)
Web links
17(1)
Theory and the European Union's International Relations
18(21)
Introduction
19(1)
Classical explanations: Federalism and neofunctionalism
20(3)
European integration and IR theory
23(2)
Realist views of European foreign policy
25(3)
Liberal views
28(3)
Alternative approaches
31(2)
The role of Europe in the world
33(2)
The future of European foreign policy
35(2)
Notes
37(1)
Further reading
37(1)
Web links
37(2)
The Pattern of the EU's Global Activity
39(28)
Introduction
40(1)
Historical evolution
41(2)
Geographical scope
43(7)
Africa, the Caribbean, and the Pacific
43(1)
The Mediterranean
44(1)
Central and Eastern Europe
45(1)
The new neighbours
46(2)
The Atlantic
48(1)
Asia
49(1)
Drivers and brakes
50(8)
The general EC framework
50(2)
European Political Cooperation
52(1)
The Commission
52(1)
Member states
53(4)
The European Council
57(1)
The European Parliament
57(1)
Enduring tensions
58(3)
Conclusions
61(1)
Note
62(1)
Further reading
63(1)
Web links
63(4)
The Institutional Framework
67(24)
Introduction: institutions and why they matter
68(2)
Institutions and their impact
70(14)
The Common Commercial Policy
71(3)
Development cooperation policy and humanitarian assistance
74(4)
European foreign policy and defence cooperation
78(6)
Beyond enlargement: institutional adjustments in the Constitutional Treaty
84(1)
Conclusion: how and how much do institutions matter?
85(3)
Notes
88(1)
Further reading
89(1)
Web links
90(1)
Coherence and Consistency
91(22)
Introduction
92(1)
`Consistency' and its importance
93(1)
Historical background
94(2)
Categorisation
96(2)
Institutional consistency---legal instruments and practices
98(2)
Institutional consistency---structures
100(2)
Institutional consistency---obligations
102(1)
Horizontal consistency
103(3)
Vertical consistency
106(2)
The Constitutional Treaty
108(2)
Conclusions
110(1)
Notes
111(1)
Further reading
111(1)
Web links
112(1)
Accountable and Legitimate? The EU's International Role
113(21)
Introduction
113(1)
The external dimension: a source of distinctive legitimation issues?
114(6)
The European Parliament
120(4)
Trade
121(1)
Enlargement
121(1)
Aid
122(2)
National parliaments
124(2)
Politicisation?
126(4)
Standards
130(1)
Conclusions
131(1)
Further reading
132(1)
Web links
133(1)
The Europeanization of Foreign Policy
134(20)
Introduction
135(1)
The meanings of Europeanization
135(5)
National adaptation
136(1)
National projection
137(1)
Identity reconstruction
138(1)
Modernisation
139(1)
Policy isophormism
139(1)
Three dimensions of foreign policy Europeanization
140(2)
Common Foreign and Security Policy vs. national foreign policies
142(3)
Foreign policy analysis and Europeanization
144(1)
Applying Europeanization theory to national foreign policy
145(1)
Convergence vs. the logic of diversity
146(3)
Conclusions
149(3)
Notes
152(1)
Further reading
152(1)
Web links
153(1)
Implementation: Making the EU's International Relations Work
154(25)
Introduction: the problem of implementation in foreign policy
155(2)
The EU's own resources in external relations/third countries
157(2)
National resources and EU external relations
159(1)
The instruments of EU foreign policy
160(10)
Diplomatic capability
162(2)
Economic capability
164(5)
Military capability
169(1)
Credibility and capability gaps
170(3)
Conclusion: what kind of power does the EU possess?
173(1)
Notes
174(1)
Further reading
174(1)
Web links
175(4)
From Security to Defence: the Evolution of the CFSP
179(26)
Introduction
180(1)
European security and defence in theoretical perspective
181(2)
From foreign policy coordination to a European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP)
183(5)
European military capacity: the rhetoric and the reality
188(4)
Spending patterns and defence budgets
188(1)
The Helsinki Headline Goal (HHG) and European military capacity
188(4)
`Headline Goal 2010'
192(1)
2003: The EU becomes a military actor
192(3)
Political developments and dilemmas
195(3)
The `European Security Strategy'
195(1)
The `European Union Minister for Foreign Affairs' (EUMFA)
196(1)
`Structured Cooperation' and the `Solidarity Clause'
196(2)
Operational and planning issues
198(2)
Procurement and defence planning
198(1)
Operational planning
199(1)
Intelligence
200(1)
Towards a long-term vision?
200(1)
Conclusions: from the short to the medium term and beyond
201(1)
Notes
202(1)
Further reading
203(1)
Web links
204(1)
The External Face of Internal Security
205(20)
Introduction
206(1)
The history of internal security cooperation
207(1)
Post-Cold War internal security challenges
208(6)
Transnational crime and drug trafficking
209(2)
The challenge from terrorism
211(2)
Immigration and refugees
213(1)
Creating and developing the EU's Justice and Home Affairs pillar
214(4)
Cooperation with third countries
218(4)
The USA
219(1)
States seeking accession
220(2)
Policing roles in external interventions
222(1)
Conclusion
223(1)
Further reading
224(1)
Web links
224(1)
Managing Interdependence: The EU in the World Economy
225(22)
Introduction
226(1)
Integration and mixed economies
227(3)
A new economic orthodoxy
230(3)
A single currency
233(2)
Trade policy---and more
235(3)
An expanding agenda
238(2)
An ever increasing membership
240(2)
Europeanization and globalisation
242(3)
Notes
245(1)
Further reading
245(1)
Web links
246(1)
The European Union as a Trade Power
247(23)
Introduction
248(1)
The road to European competence in trade
249(5)
The common commercial policy in the Treaty of Rome
249(1)
The challenge to exclusive competence during the 1990s
250(1)
From Amsterdam to Nice: a political solution to the competence dispute
251(1)
Trade policy in the EU Constitutional Treaty
252(2)
The EU trade policy-making process
254(4)
The negotiating mandate
254(3)
The negotiations
257(1)
The ratification
257(1)
The enlarged EU as a trade power
258(1)
The EU as champion of multilateralism?
259(6)
The European single market and world trade liberalisation
259(2)
Settling disputes in the WTO
261(2)
`Open bilateralism'? The limits of transatlantic trade cooperation
263(1)
The EU's conditional support for regionalism
264(1)
Conclusion: the EU as a power in and through trade
265(1)
Notes
266(2)
Further reading
268(1)
Web links
269(1)
Enlargement and European Order
270(22)
Introduction
271(1)
Concentric circles
272(4)
The Copenhagen European Council, June 1993
276(3)
The Luxembourg and Helsinki European Councils
279(4)
Big-bang enlargement
283(1)
Relations with south-eastern Europe
284(2)
Relations with the `wider Europe'
286(2)
Conclusion
288(1)
Notes
289(1)
Further reading
290(1)
Web links
290(2)
The Shadow of Empire: The EU and the Former Colonial World
292(25)
Introduction
293(2)
The EU as a system of IR and within the wider international order
295(8)
The Cold War
295(5)
The post-Cold War order
300(3)
The EU and the processes of international relations
303(7)
The EU as a power in international relations
310(3)
Conclusion
313(2)
Notes
315(1)
Further reading
315(1)
Web links
316(1)
The EU and Inter-regional Cooperation
317(26)
Introduction
318(1)
Inter-regional cooperation as part of the EU's foreign and security policy
319(2)
Old and new forms of inter-regional cooperation---an historical overview
321(3)
The origins---relations with Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, and ASEAN in the 1970s
321(1)
Extension towards Central America and Europe in the 1980s
322(1)
New regionalism after the end of the East-West divide
323(1)
The EU and inter-regional cooperation in action---main features
324(13)
The EU and Africa
324(6)
The EU and the Mediterranean and the Gulf region
330(1)
The EU and Asia
331(2)
The EU and Latin America
333(2)
The EU and other regional groupings in Europe
335(2)
Conclusions
337(2)
Notes
339(2)
Further reading
341(1)
Web links
342(1)
The EU and the United States
343(24)
Introduction
343(1)
The changing shape of EU-US relations
344(4)
EU-US relations and the EU's system of international relations
348(3)
EU-US relations and the processes of international relations
351(6)
EU-US relations and the EU as a power in international relations
357(4)
Conclusion
361(1)
Further reading
362(1)
Web links
363(4)
A European Civilising Process?
367(21)
Introduction
368(1)
Two images of the EU
369(2)
Norbert Elias on `the civilizing process'
371(2)
A global civilising process?
373(3)
The changing nature of political community in Europe
376(2)
Preventing harm in world politics
378(4)
Auditing the EU
382(3)
Conclusions
385(1)
Notes
386(1)
Further reading
386(1)
Web links
387(1)
Acting for Europe: Reassessing the European Union's Place in International Relations
388(16)
Introduction
389(1)
The EU and the perspectives of international relations
389(5)
Realism
389(1)
Liberalism
390(3)
Alternative approaches
393(1)
The place of the EU in the international system
394(4)
What the EU is not
394(2)
The EU's positive contributions
396(2)
System, process, and power
398(6)
The EU as a sub-system of international relations
398(1)
The EU and the general processes of international relations
399(3)
The EU as a power in the world
402(2)
Conclusions
404

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