Contemporary European Foreign Policy

The 16 essays presented here by Carlsnaes (government, Uppsala U., Sweden), Sjursen (senior researcher, ARENA - Centre for European Studies, U. of Oslo, Norway), and White (international relations, Warwick U. and Staffordshire U., UK) have their roots in research conducted at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs and the ARENA program at the U. of Oslo. They were conceived to grapple with the complex and interrelated European developments within foreign policy since the emergence of the European Union. After introductions to theories and concepts of European policy, individual chapters consider the analytical dimensions of security and defense, foreign economic policy, diplomacy, national foreign policy coordination, collective identity, human rights, and sovereignty and intervention. In addition, a group of case studies, conceived to address the analytic concepts just presented, consider such topics as the EU police mission in Bosnia-Herzegovina, EU-Mediterranean economic relations, the impact of the EU on Member State diplomacy, collective identity in the Greek case, the European Charter of Fundamental Rights, and EU interventionism in the "near abroad." Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR