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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 institutional arrangements for joint foreign policy-making created by the member states at EU level. The second part looks more closely at the reality of foreign policy making in a number of case studies, focusing on the diplomatic, military and economic dimensions of European Unions foreign policy. This structure and approach enable s the reader to understand the reality of European foreign policy-making, to comprehend the relationship between the foreign policies of the member states of the EU and the foreign policy of the EU as a whole and to make a judgement as to the likely scenarios for the future.Foreign Policy in the European Union is an important and accessible addition to the textbook literature on European integration that will be essential reading for undergraduate and Masters level courses on European integration within politics, international relations, European Studies and history degrees.
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Foreign policy in the European Union
Theory, history and practice
Ben Soetendorp
First published 1999 by Pearson Education Limited
Published 2014 by Routledge
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Soetendorp, Ben, 1944
Foreign policy in the European Union: theory, history, and
practice / Ben Soetendorp.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0582328934 (ppr)
1. European Union countriesForeign relations. I. Title.
D1060.S6 1999
327.47dc21 9852187
CIP
Soetendorp, Ben, 1944
Foreign policy in the European Union: theory, history, and
practice / Ben Soetendorp.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0582328934 (ppr)
1. European Union countriesForeign relations. I. Title.
D1060.S6 1999
327.47dc21 9852187
CIP
Typeset by 35 in 10/12pt Times
Contents
Guide
- CAP Common Agricultural Policy
- CCP Common Commerce Policy
- CFSP Common Foreign and Security Policy
- CGAC (Portuguese) Government Commission for Community Affairs
- CICE (Portuguese) Interministerial Commission for the European Community
- CJTF Combined Joint Task Force
- CMCA (Portuguese) Council of Ministers for Community Affairs
- CMEA Council for Mutual Economic Assistance
- Co-Co Coordination Committee for European Integration
- COREPER Committee of Permanent Representatives
- COREU European Correspondents network
- CSCE Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe
- EBRD European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
- EC European Community
- EC/EU European Communities/European Union
- ECMM European Community Monitoring Mission
- ECSC European Coal and Steel Community
- EDC European Defence Community
- EEC European Economic Community
- EFTA European Free Trade Association
- EMS European Monetary System
- EMU Economic and Monetary Union
- EP European Parliament
- EPC European Political Cooperation
- ESDI European Security and Defence Identity
- EU European Union
- Euratom European Atomic Energy Community
- FCO Foreign and Commonwealth Office
- FDP (German) Free Democratic Party
- FRG Federal Republic of Germany
- GATT General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
- GDR German Democratic Republic
- IFOR Implementation Force
- MBFR Mutual Balanced Force Reductions
- NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organization
- OAPEC Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries
- OECD Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
- OEEC Organization for European Economic Cooperation
- OSCE Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe
- PASOK (Greek socialist party)
- PHARE Poland and Hungary: Assistance for Restructuring Economies
- PLO Palestinian Liberation Organization
- SEA Single European Act
- SECE (Spain) Secretariat of State for the European Community
- SGCI Secretariat General du Comite Intenninisteriel
- SPD (German) Social Democratic Party
- SU Soviet Union
- TEU Treaty on European Union
- UNPROFOR United Nations Protection Force
- US United States
- WEU West European Union
- WTO World Trade Organization
In the process of European integration, the effort to create a single European foreign policy has a distinctive character. While the West European states were willing to make great leaps forward towards the building of an economic and monetary union with a single market and a single currency, less progress has been made so far in the foreign policy field. It looks as if foreign policy and especially security policy remain the last great bastion of state sovereignty and that the member-states still consider foreign policy making the reserved domain of the European nation-states. But the creation of an institutionalized framework for the making of a common foreign policy at the level of the European Union (EU) has made European foreign policy more than just the aggregation of fifteen national foreign policies. It has actually blurred the distinction between national foreign policies and a common European foreign policy. More and more foreign policy issues are treated as common foreign policies, binding national governments to the common decision taken, and making it harder for the member-states to pursue national foreign policies that are at odds with the other EU countries.
The aim of this book is to find out to what extent the individual member-states each with a different history, different interests and different styles of foreign policy making - still dominate the common foreign policy making in the EU, and how the common foreign policy making in the EU framework constrains the foreign policy behaviour of the individual member-states.
After a short introductory chapter the first part of the book reviews the diverse foreign policy patterns of the individual member-states towards European integration ( looks into the military dimension. This will help us to understand the reality of European foreign policy making, to comprehend the relationship between the foreign policies of the member-states of the EU and the foreign policy of the EU as a whole, to grasp its unique nature and to explore the prospects for developing a single European foreign policy.
Before proceeding it is important to make some observations about the term 'foreign policy'. To start with, foreign policy is defined in this book as the individual and the collective plans and actions of national governments oriented towards the external world (Rosenau, 1987: 3). It refers to the collection of goals, strategies and instruments, as well as the everyday actions selected by governmental policy makers (Rosati, 1993: 2). However, two remarks have to be made in this respect. First, as Northedge reminds us, it is useful to think of a government's policy more in terms of a government's position. 'Foreign policy represents an infinite sequence of positions on the daily flow of international issues reaching the Foreign Minister's desk' (Northedge, 1969: 28). Second, because many of the foreign policy decisions are taken in cooperation with other West European states, these positions, as William Wallace has claimed, are rather negotiating positions: 'decisions about desired decisions to guide its negotiators in the process of multilateral bargaining' (Wallace, 1975: 295).
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