| Paradoxes of European Foreign Policy Contributor(s): Zielonka, Jan (Editor) |
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ISBN: 9041105719 ISBN-13: 9789041105714 Publisher: Brill Nijhoff OUR PRICE: $183.35 Product Type: Hardcover Published: May 1998 Annotation: The European Union's foreign policy is full of paradoxes. The Union aspires to be a powerful international actor without becoming a super-state. It hopes to prevent and manage conflicts, but refrains from acquiring the military means to do so. It embarks on the project of widening its borders, but continues its deepening project which makes the entrance hurdles for applicant countries ever higher. It wishes to maintain strong transatlantic links, but continues to build institutions that make the EU more independent from - if not competitive with - the United States. In this stimulating book, distinguished European and American intellectuals offer solutions to imperative but unanswered questions: How can the Union's enormous normative power of attraction' combined with its operational weakness be explained? Can the Union remain a civilian power' when coping with an uncivilized' world? Can a European foreign policy get off the ground without prior emergence of a European demos? Are national policies within the Union increasingly convergent or divergent? And how can the Union's international performance be assessed? |
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| BISAC Categories: - Law | International - Political Science | International Relations - General |
| Dewey: 327.4 |
| LCCN: 98005118 |
| Physical Information: 184 pages |
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| Publisher Description: The European Union's foreign policy is full of paradoxes. The Union aspires to be a powerful international actor without becoming a super-state. It hopes to prevent and manage conflicts, but refrains from acquiring the military means to do so. It embarks on the project of widening its borders, but continues its deepening project which makes the entrance hurdles for applicant countries ever higher. It wishes to maintain strong transatlantic links, but continues to build institutions that make the EU more independent from - if not competitive with - the United States. In this stimulating book, distinguished European and American intellectuals offer solutions to imperative but unanswered questions: How can the Union's enormous normative power of attraction' combined with its operational weakness be explained? Can the Union remain a civilian power' when coping with an uncivilized' world? Can a European foreign policy get off the ground without prior emergence of a European demos? Are national policies within the Union increasingly convergent or divergent? And how can the Union's international performance be assessed? |