Foreign Policies of EU Member States: Continuity and Europeanisation

by Amelia Hadfield (Editor), Ian Manners (Editor), Richard G. Whitman (Editor)

Overview

Foreign Policies of EU Member States provides a clear and current overview of the motivations and outcomes of EU Member States regarding their foreign policy-making within and beyond the EU. It provides an in-depth analysis of intra-EU policy-making and sheds light, in an innovative and understandable way, on the lesser-known aspects of the inter-EU and extra-EU foreign policies of the twenty-eight Member States. The text has an innovative method of thematic organisation in which case study state profiles emerge via dominant foreign policy themes. The text examines the three main policy challenges currently faced by the twenty-eight Member States:

• First, EU Member States must cooperate within the mechanisms of the EU, including the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP).
• Second, EU Member States continue to construct their own inter-EU foreign policies.
• Third, the sovereign prerogative exercised by all EU Member States is to construct their own foreign policies on everything from trade and defence with the rest of the world.

This combination of clarity, thematic structure and empirical case studies make this an ideal textbook for all upper-level students of European foreign policy, comparative European politics and European studies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415670050
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/09/2017
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	6.88(w) x 9.69(h) x (d)

About the Author

Amelia Hadfield is the Director of the Centre for European Studies (CEFEUS) and the Jean Monnet Chair in European Foreign Affairs, at Canterbury Christ Church University.

Ian Manners is a Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Richard G. Whitman is Professor of Politics and International Relations and Head of the School of Politics and International Relations at the University of Kent, UK. He is also Associate Fellow at Chatham House and an Academic Fellow at the European Policy Centre.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Part I: Geographic Orientations / Geopolitics

1. Northern Europe: Denmark, Sweden, Finland & New Northern Europe: Baltics

2. Western Europe, Britain, Ireland, Benelux 3

3. Eastern Europe, Visegrad Four / Austria / Slovenia, Romania, Bulgaria

4. Core Europe: France and Germany

5. Southern Europe, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Greece, New Southern Europe: Malta, Cyprus

Part II: Foreign Policy Dimensions

6. Foreign Policy and Diplomacy

7. Security and Defence

8. Member State policy towards EY military operations

9. Enlargement and Geopolitics

10. Energy Security and Climate Change

11. Neighbourhood Policy

12. Development

13. External Facets of Justice, Freedom and Security

14. National Aims and Adaptations

15. EU in the World: From Multilateralism to Global Governance

16. Conclusion

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

'An extremely useful and comprehensive overview of the current state of European foreign policy written in an accessible style by an experienced practioner with an excellent understanding of what is required in an introductory academic text.' - David Allen, Loughborough University, UK

'Much writing on European Foreign Policy falls into one of two camps. Either the account is bedeviled by an over preoccupation with detail or empirical reality is bypassed in favour of self referential theoretical debates. By contrast, Fraser Cameron drawing on his extensive experience as a practitioner has given us a masterly and wholly accessible account of the evolution of European Foreign Policy which will be required reading on EU courses.' - William E Paterson O.B.E., University of Birmingham, UK

On the eve of another crucial step on the long march towards a more robust European Union foreign policy capability under whatever form of new Treaty this book provides an excellent insider account - it describes in a pedagogic fashion the strength, the shortcomings and the organizational complexities of the EU's external action today. The book will be invaluable for all students engaged in European studies.' - Günter Burghardt - Ambassador (ret.), Visiting professor at the College of Europe and the University of Ghent, Belgium

Editorial Reviews

‘For the many scholars and students who have used the first edition of The Foreign Policies of EU Member States as a key reference and resource, this second edition is very welcome. It also represents a significant advance in our understanding of foreign policies in the EU, combining as it does analysis based on the geopolitical orientations and roles of the member states with their engagement in a series of cross-cutting issues, and enables important comparative conclusions to be drawn. The result is a rich and provocative collection of case-studies as well as a stimulating comparative analysis.’

Michael Smith, University of Warwick, UK.

‘This most welcomed edited book provides an indispensable contribution to studying and understanding EU foreign policy by linking the diverse historic and geostrategic foundations of Member States’ identity and preferences, to those domestic dimensions’ influence on forging a ‘common’ foreign policy across often rather contentious foreign policy fields. It is thus an invaluable read for academics’ as much as for actual foreign policy-makers’ interested in comprehending the challenge of achieving ‘unity in diversity’ in EU foreign policy-making.’

Ingo Peters, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.

From the Publisher