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Europe's Foreign and Security Policy

Europe's Foreign and Security Policy

Europe's Foreign and Security Policy

The Institutionalization of Cooperation
Michael E. Smith, Georgia State University
December 2003
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9780521538619

    Emergence of a common security and foreign policy has been one of the most contentious issues accompanying the integration of the European Union. With 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 analysis will appeal to scholars and researchers in international relations, law, foreign policy and European studies.

    • Unique analytical framework developed to explain the special relationship between institutional development and cooperative outcomes
    • Covers the entire history of EU foreign policy cooperation from its origins in the late 1960s
    • Synthesizes a large amount of empirical evidence drawn from a variety of sources, including numerous elite interviews

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    "Smith's important work deserves to be included in the canon of European foreign policy theoretical texts. It nicely rounds out our theoretical knowledge of the role of institutions in European foreign policy cooperation and is strongly recommended to those, like Smith, who are intrigued by the unprecendented degree of foreign policy cooperation among the 25 members of the European Union." APSA Perspectives on Politics

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    December 2004
    Adobe eBook Reader
    9780511056697
    0 pages
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    13 tables
    This ISBN is for an eBook version which is distributed on our behalf by a third party.

    Table of Contents

    • 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.
      Author
    • Michael E. Smith , University of St Andrews, Scotland

      Michael E. Smith is Assistant Professor of Political Science, Georgia State University, Atlanta.