Toward Political Union: Planning A Common Foreign And Security Policy In The European Community

by Reinhard Rummel

Overview

The contributors, representing major European Community institutions and member states, offer their assessments of the political and institutional issues influencing the formation of a common foreign and security policy for the 12 member states. Representatives of non-EC countries (particularly the United States, the Soviet Union, and Japan) provi

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367211868
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/30/2020
Pages:	384
Product dimensions:	5.75(w) x 8.75(h) x (d)

About the Author

Reinhardt Rummel- Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, LMU· Center for Applied Policy Research (CAP)

Table of Contents

Preface — The Scope of Challenges for a Common Foreign and Security Policy — Regional Integration in the Global Test — State of the Art of Common Foreign Policy and Security Cooperation: Internal Organization and External Activity — The Community's External Reach — The Constitutional Foundation — The Institutional Network and the Instruments of Action — The Core of Decision-Making — A Test Case of Consistency: The San José Dialogue — West European Responses to Change in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe — EPC's Performance in Crises — Western Europe and the Gulf War — European Responses to the Yugoslav Crisis: An Interim Assessment — West European Cooperation on Nuclear Proliferation — Perceptions and Demands from Outside: What Kind of Political Union? — View from the United States: Common Foreign and Security Policy as a Centerpiece of U.S. Interest in European Political Union — View from the Soviet Union: Integration as a Progressive Concept for the Common European Home — View from Japan: Asymmetries in the Evolving European-Japanese Dialogue — View from Austria: Preparing for Membership — The Hungarian View: An EC Associate's Perspective from Central Europe — View from Yugoslavia: Political Union to Avoid Nineteenth Century Foreign Policy — View from Turkey: Political Union as a Contribution to the New Europe — Assessing the Concepts for Political Union: CFSP as a Touchstone — From the Draft Treaty of 1984 to the Intergovernmental Conferences of 1991 — Scope and Structure of the Community's Future Foreign Policy — Beyond Maastricht: Alternative Futures for a Political Union — Extracts of Selected Documents on Political Union in 1991 — EC Commission — European Parliament — Western European Union — North Atlantic Treaty Organization — Bilateral Initiatives — EC and United States

Editorial Reviews

Contributors from institutions of the European Community, and from member and non-member states, review the current state of the community's foreign policy, and speculate on how it will change when and if the Maastricht Treaty is implemented to change economic unity to political unity in Europe. Includes discussions of the western European reaction to the Soviet breakup, the Gulf War, and unrest in Yugoslavia. No index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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