The European Union as a Global Actor

by Charlotte Bretherton, John Vogler

Overview

This comprehensive, up to date and theoretically informed text examines the full range of the European Union's external relations including the Common Foreign and Security Policy. It look at the increasingly important part the EU plays in global politics. The authors argue that the EU's significance cannot be grasped by making comparisons with traditional states. Issues covered include:
· the status, coherence, consistency and roles of the EU as an actor, and what being an actor means in practice.
· how the field of trade relations forms the basis of the EUs activities
· the EU in global environmental diplomacy, North-South relations and in relation to the Mediterranean and East/Central Europe
· the EUs controversial relationship to the Common Foreign and Security Policy and defence.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781134458813
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	03/15/2005
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	336
File size:	6 MB

About the Author

Charlotte Bretherton is Senior Lecturer in European Studies and International Relations at Liverpool John Moores University. Her main interests are in the contemporary European Union, development and gender issues.
John Vogler is Professor of International Relations at Keele University and Chair of the British International Studies Association Environment Group. He is the author of numerous publications on the environment in world politics and international cooperation including The Global Commons (2000).

Table of Contents

Introduction; Chapter 1 Conceptualizing actors and actorness; Chapter 2 Nature of the beast; Chapter 3 The EU as an economic power and trade actor; Chapter 4 Environmental policy; Chapter 5 The EU as development and humanitarian actor; Chapter 6 Candidates and neighbours; Chapter 7 Common foreign and security policy; Chapter 8 The EU as a security community and military actor; conclusion Conclusion;

Editorial Reviews

'The book contains a mine of information for students of the EU and plenty of grist for the theoretical mills of international relations.' - Professor Juliet Lodge, Centre for European Studies, University of Leeds

'..far reaching, well researched and well ordered.' - Contemporary Review - Jan 2000

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