Rethinking European Union Foreign Policy (Europe in Change) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 071906001X ISBN 13: 9780719060014

Publisher: Manchester University Press, 2005

Synopsis

This text reviews a variety of approaches to the study of the European Union's foreign policy. Much analysis of EU foreign policy contains implicit theoretical assumptions about the nature of the EU and its member states, their inter-relationships, the international system in which they operate and the nature and direction of European integration. In many instances such assumptions, given that they are not discussed openly, curtail rather than facilitate debate. The purpose of this book is to open up this field of enquiry so that students, observers and analysts of EU foreign policy can review a broad range of tools and theoretical templates from which the development and the trajectory of the EU's foreign policy can be studied.

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About the Author

Ben Tonra is Senior Lecturer and Academic Director of the Dublin European Institute at University College Dublin. Thomas Christiansen is Jean Monnet Lecturer and Director of the Jean Monnet Centre for European Studies at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.

Review

"'A highly topical study into the role of the perhaps most crucial country in the ongoing process of enlarging the European Union towards the East.' Elko Thielemann, Lecturer in European Politics, London School of Economics and Political Science"

Edition details

• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 071906001X
• ISBN 13: 9780719060014
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Tonra Ben, Christiansen Thomas