LEADER 03686nam 2200577 a 450 001 9910454923203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-84964-136-6 035 $a(CKB)1000000000802693 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH22933432 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000417251 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11276218 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000417251 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10361880 035 $a(PQKB)11479365 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3386318 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3386318 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10479848 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL987822 035 $a(OCoLC)654106205 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000802693 100 $a20010827d2002 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aEuropean Union foreign policy$b[electronic resource] $ewhat it is and what it does /$fHazel Smith 210 $aLondon ;$aSterling, Va. $cPluto Press$d2002 215 $a1 online resource (312 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-7453-1869-X 311 $a0-7453-1870-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 276-280) and index. 327 $a1. 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? 330 $b'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. 606 $aInternational economic relations 607 $aEuropean Union countries$xForeign economic relations 607 $aEuropean Union countries$xForeign relations 607 $aEurope$xForeign relations$y1989- 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aInternational economic relations. 676 $a341.7/094 700 $aSmith$b Hazel$f1954-$0907745 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910454923203321 996 $aEuropean Union foreign policy$92056205 997 $aUNINA