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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463135603321

Titolo

The Europeanization of national foreign policies towards Latin America / / edited by Lorena Ruano

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

0-203-10089-1

1-283-86168-2

1-136-23280-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (280 p.)

Collana

Routledge advances in European politics ; ; 86

Altri autori (Persone)

RuanoLorena

Disciplina

327.408

Soggetti

Electronic books.

European Union countries Foreign relations Latin America Case studies

Latin America Foreign relations European Union countries Case studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- The conceptual framework / Lorena ruano -- Spain: double track Europeanization and the search for bilateralism / José Antonio Sanahuja -- Germany: from advocate to bystander and back? / Bettina Trueb -- France: from uploads to disengagement / Georges Couffignal -- The United Kingdom: semi-detached uploads / Lorena Ruano and Laurence Whitehead -- Sweden: from original profile to blending in / Rebecka Villanueva Ulfgard -- Poland: download and the development of a policy / Piotr Maciej Kaczynski -- Ireland: direct download to tentative bilateralism / Peadar ó Broin -- Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

Who shapes the European Union's policy towards Latin America? How has this EU policy modified individual member states' relations with the region? This book provides a comparative account of seven member states' bilateral links with Latin America since 1945, in the context of their EU membership and based on the concept of 'Europeanization'. It illustrates how and why the main architects of this EU policy have been Spain and Germany. In contrast, Poland, Sweden and Ireland, which had little previous interaction with Latin America, have developed their current relations with th