Europe's Foreign and Security Policy

This volume provides an analysis of the growth of foreign and security policy cooperation between EU member states.

Auteur

Michael E. Smith

Texte du rabat

The emergence of a common security and foreign policy has been one of the most contentious issues accompanying the integration of the European Union. Using extensive empirical evidence drawn from interviews, case studies, official documents and secondary sources, Michael Smith examines the specific ways foreign policy cooperation has been institutionalized in the EU. This perceptive and well-informed analysis will appeal to scholars and researchers in the field of international relations, law, foreign policy and European studies.

Résumé
Michael Smith analyses the growth of foreign and security policy cooperation between member states of the EU and examines the dynamics that have produced the current policy process. This perceptive, well-informed analysis draws on extensive empirical evidence, including interviews and official documents.

Contenu

List of tables; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction: foreign and security policy in the European Union; Part I. Institutions and Foreign Policy Cooperation: The Theoretical and Empirical Terrain: 1. The institutionalization of cooperation: an analytical framework; 2. Institutions and European foreign policy cooperation: the empirical link; Part II. The Institutionalization of Cooperation: 3. Origins: intergovernmentalism and European political pooperation; 4. Information-sharing and the transgovernmental EPC network; 5. Norms, rules and laws in European foreign policy; 6. Organizations and European foreign policy; 7. Toward governance: the Common Foreign and Security Policy; Part III. Residual Institutional Issues: 8. Unfinished business: coherence and the EU's global ambitions; Conclusion: beyond the CFSP: institutions, defense and the European identity; References; Index.