Foreign and Security Policy in the European Union

Kjell A Eliassen

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Year: 1998
• Print ISBN:
  9780761956334
  9780761956327
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781849206860
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Politics
• Index: Politics & International Relations

This book provides a comprehensive overview of why European integration in foreign and security policy has proved so difficult. The obstacles to developing the common policy in this second pillar of the European Union go to the heart of debates around the sovereignty of the nation-state. A leading group of international contributors explain how these problems arise and consider the future prospects of developing a more regional-based solution.

Broadly organized around the three areas of policy, actors and issues, the first section traces the reluctant growth of EU integration in foreign and security policy as it developed from the mid-1980s. In the second section the national policies and interests that typically obstruct a common policy are explored through four key member states. The third section considers ways of addressing problems like the EU?s expansion to include Central and Eastern Europe, the impact of an independent European security identity on the transatlantic relationship, as well as the potential risks to European security from the Mediterranean rim.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Preface
• 1 - Introduction: The New European Foreign and Security Policy Agenda
• I: EUROPEAN UNION FOREIGN AND SECURITY POLICY
• 2 - The CFSP and the Nation-State
• 3 - The Single European Act
• 4 - The Common Foreign and Security Policy from Maastricht to Amsterdam
• 5 - The 1996 IGC: The Actors and their Interaction
• II: NATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGIES
• 6 - France and the European Project: Internal and External Issues
• 7 - The Security Policy of a United Germany
• 8 - British Security Policy
• 9 - Spanish Security Policy and the Mediterranean Question
• III: SECURITY ISSUES OF THE EUROPEAN UNION
• 10 - Security Issues Emanating from the Mediterranean Basin
• 11 - Security Implications of EU Expansion to the North and East
• 12 - The Future of Armament Cooperation in NATO and the WEU
• 13 - European Foreign and Security Policy in the Future
• Bibliography
• Index