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Overview
This book makes an original contribution to the debate by bringing together competing visions of the European Union's Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP). It offers a definitive assessment of the post-Maastricht evolution of the EU's role as a global actor, as well as a prognosis for the CFSP given the reforms mandated by the 1997 Amsterdam treaty.
A key finding which emerges from this volume is that the CFSP is in many respects a myth. It does not cover all aspects of foreign and security policy not is it often made in a "spirit of loyalty and mutual solidarity". The book features chapters on the interface between EU foreign and trade policies, the EU's relationship with European defense organizations, the institutional consequences of the Amsterdam Treaty and case studies of Union politics towards Eastern and Central Europe, Latin America and the Mediterranean.
Synopsis
The first book to explore the EU's record as a global actor since the creation of the Common Foreign and Security Policy in 1993 within the context of the Treaty of Amsterdam and recent decisions relating to NATO and EU enlargement. The chapters focus on:
* the interface between EU foreign and trade policies
* the EU's relationship with European defence organizations
* its behaviour within the OSCE and UN
* the institutional consequences of the CFSP
* case studies of EU policies towards Central and Eastern Europe and the Maghreb countries.
The editors draw the findings together to assess whether the EU has been successful as a global actor and consider the question: can the EU become a more credible, reliable and unitary global actor?