Foreign Policy in the European Union - 9781138180000

Taylor & Francis

The text introduces students to the theoretical debates about policy-making in the EU,  the way in which national governments act both to satisfy domestic constituencies and international partners, and the principal institutional structures for foreign policy. In the second part of the book a series of chapter length case studies illustrate the themes in the first part showing the EU's relative weakness as a foreign policy actor and the enduring importance of the national foreign policy concerns of France, Germany, the UK and the USA. > Ben Soetendorp examines the extent to which individual member states - each with their own history, special interests and styles of foreign policy-making - still dominate the common foreign policy making process within the European Union. The first part of the book reviews the diverse foreign policy patterns of the individual member states towards European integration, describes the various styles of foreign policy and examines the institutiony