European Union Foreign Policy and Central America
โ Scribed by Hazel Smith
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Year
- 1995
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 259
- Category
- Library
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โฆ Synopsis
This volume provides an evaluation of the European Community's transformation from a relatively cohesive and independent foreign policy actor. The EC's intervention in the high-profile Central American conflict of the 1980s demonstrates a coherence and convergence around a policy that was different from that of the United States and, in the end, more effective. The book also discusses how four key member states - Britain, the Federal Republic of Germany, France and Spain - reacted both to the growing crisis in Central America and to West Europe's conflictual relations with the US. The premiss of this book is that the EC's foreign policy success will not easily be emulated in another international crisis. While the EU remains a non-unitary, non-state actor, it is only in "non-crisis" that the EU, particularly an enlarged EU, will be able to operate an effective foreign policy post-Maastricht.
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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
<p>This book debates the nature of the EU and its international relationships, enabling students of EU foreign policy to review a broad range of theoretical templates from which the EU's foreign policy can be studied.</p>