Explaining Euro-Paralysis: Why Europe is Unable to Act in International Politics

by J. Zielonka

Overview

This book is about Europe's apparent inability to cope with the complex international environment. Why does the Union fail to create a workable (sound) Common Foreign and Security Policy? Five distinct explanations for Euro-paralysis are considered, focusing on power politics, the assertion of national interests, misguided institutional designs, a crisis of modern democracy, and the post-Cold War conceptual confusion.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780333730409
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	10/07/1998
Series:	St Antony's Series
Edition description:	1998
Pages:	266
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

JAN ZIELONKA is Associate Professor at Leiden University since 1983, Fellow of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS, Wassenaar) in 1983-84 and 1989-90, Research Associate at the International Institute for strategic Studies, London (1990-91), Senior Associate Member at St. Antony's College, Oxford (1994), and Visiting Scholar at the Centre for International Studies at Oxford University (1994-95). He has published books and articles on political ideas in Poland, on human rights and security in Europe, on the problems of transition in Central and Eastern Europe, and on East-West trade and technology transfers.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction Beyond Euro-optimism and Skepticism Power Politics, Again Divergent Traditions and Conflicting Interests Paradigm Lost and the Conceptual Confusion The Crisis of Modern Democracy Weak Institutions The Choices to be Made Selected Bibliography Index

Editorial Reviews

'...Zielonka's edited volume should be read and pondered.' - Government and Opposition

'This book offers stimulating insights and fresh ways of thinking about the EU and its foreign and security policy deficiencies.' - Uwe Schmalz, Institut für Europäische Politik

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