Contemporary European Foreign Policy / Edition 1

by Walter Carlsnaes, Helene Sjursen, Brian White

Overview

This major new book introduces and examines the latest developments in European foreign policy. It provides a complete overview of the ways in which the very nature of foreign policy in Europe has changed and advances new insights into contemporary European foreign policy analysis.

The book is structured around three parts. Part one provides a concise overview of the latest theories and concepts in this growing field of study and research. Part two assembles and reviews a series of contemporary issue areas including security and defense, economic foreign policy, diplomacy, national cooperation, human rights, and sovereignty. Part three mirrors and builds on Part two by providing an applied case study to each of the preceding topics.

Throughout the book the authors address and incorporate both the national and European Union levels of foreign policy and explore the complex interactions between the two.

The result is a book that will be essential reading for all students and researchers seeking a deeper understanding of European foreign policy today and the wider implications for future foreign policy analysis in politics and international relations.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761944997
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	05/24/2004
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	6.69(w) x 9.53(h) x (d)

About the Author

Helene Sjursen has been at ARENA since 1997. She has previousy worked as a lecturer in politics at the University of Glasgow and the University College Dublin. She holds a Ph.D. in international relations from London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

Sjursen was Visiting Research Fellow at the European Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) in the lent and summer term of 2006. She was also a Nordic Visting Fellow at the International Relations Department at LSE in 1999.

Table of Contents

Introduction - Walter Carlsnaes
PART ONE: THEORIES AND CONCEPTS
Foreign Policy Analysis and the New Europe - Brian White
European Foreign Policy - Knud Erik Jörgensen
Conceptualising the Domain
PART TWO: ANALYTICAL DIMENSIONS OF EUROPEAN FOREIGN POLICY
Security and Defence - Helene Sjursen
Economic Foreign Policy - Michael Smith
Diplomacy - Brian Hocking
National Foreign Policy Coordination - Bengt Sundelius and Magnus Ekengren
Collective Identity - Ulrich Sedelmeier
Human Rights - Janne Haaland Matlary
Sovereignty - Bertrand Badie
PART THREE: CASE STUDIES
Security and Defence - Annika Hansen
The EU Police Mission in Bosnia
Foreign Economic Policy - Ricardo Gomez and George Christou
The EU and the Mediterranean
Diplomacy - Alisdair Blair
The Impact of the EU on its Member States
National Foreign Policy Coordination - Magnus Ekengren
The Swedish EU Presidency
Collective Identity - Michelle Pace
The Greek Case
Human Rights - Agustín José Menéndez
The Right Foreign Policy for the EU?
Sovereignty - Frédéric Charillon
EU Intervention in the ‘Near Abroad'