03686nam 2200577 a 450 991045492320332120200520144314.01-84964-136-6(CKB)1000000000802693(StDuBDS)AH22933432(SSID)ssj0000417251(PQKBManifestationID)11276218(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000417251(PQKBWorkID)10361880(PQKB)11479365(MiAaPQ)EBC3386318(Au-PeEL)EBL3386318(CaPaEBR)ebr10479848(CaONFJC)MIL987822(OCoLC)654106205(EXLCZ)99100000000080269320010827d2002 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrEuropean Union foreign policy[electronic resource] what it is and what it does /Hazel SmithLondon ;Sterling, Va. Pluto Press20021 online resource (312 p.) Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-7453-1869-X 0-7453-1870-3 Includes bibliographical references (p. 276-280) and index.1. Does the European Union have a foreign policy? -- 2. Laying the groundwork, 1945-68 -- 3. Institutionalising European Union foreign policy -- 4. How it works in practice -- 5. The European Union and the north -- 6. The European Union and the neighbouring south -- 7. The European Union and the distant south -- 8. The European Union in the new Europe -- 9. Guns or butter?'This is a practical and informative account of what the European Union actually does in the world, and how it goes about it. I welcome Hazel Smith's level-headed contribution to a literature too often characterised by polemics and special pleading.' Commissioner Chris Patten'Indispensable for students and scholars alike.' Professor Chris Hill, London School of EconomicsAs the European Union is not a nation state, it is not generally perceived to have a foreign policy. However, Hazel Smith argues that quite the reverse is true: that an over-emphasis on procedure and structures has disguised the fact that the EU has a clear foreign policy that can be analysed in much the same way as that of the sovereign state. Conventional assessments of the EU focus on the mechanisms, institutions and treaties through which policies are implemented. Smith shows how this can lead to a massive underestimation of the capacities of the EU. Rather than concentrating on how the policy of the EU is made, Smith investigates the action that it has engaged in abroad, and the nature of its diverse global interventions - in relation to the United States and the industrialised North, the various regions of the South and, most recently, its huge involvement in east and central Europe and the entire European continent. Developing a pathbreaking geo-issue area analysis of the nature of EU foreign policy, this comprehensive account shows how the EU can be very effective indeed in promoting its own domestic interests abroad.International economic relationsEuropean Union countriesForeign economic relationsEuropean Union countriesForeign relationsEuropeForeign relations1989-Electronic books.International economic relations.341.7/094Smith Hazel1954-907745MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910454923203321European Union foreign policy2056205UNINA