Foreign Policies of EU Member States Continuity and Europeanisation

Foreign Policies of EU Member States provides a clear and current overview of the motivations and outcomes of EU Member States regarding their foreign policy-making within and beyond the EU. It provides an in-depth analysis of intra-EU policy-making and sheds light, in an innovative and understandable way, on the lesser-known aspects of the inter-EU and extra-EU foreign policies of the twenty-eight Member States. The text has an innovative method of thematic organisation in which case study state profiles emerge via dominant foreign policy themes. The text examines the three main policy challenges currently faced by the twenty-eight Member States:

• First, EU Member States must cooperate within the mechanisms of the EU, including the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP).
• Second, EU Member States continue to construct their own inter-EU foreign policies.
• Third, the sovereign prerogative exercised by all EU Member States is to construct their own foreign policies on everything from trade and defence with the rest of the world.

This combination of clarity, thematic structure and empirical case studies make this an ideal textbook for all upper-level students of European foreign policy, comparative European politics and European studies.

Introduction

Part I: Geographic Orientations / Geopolitics

1. Northern Europe: Denmark, Sweden, Finland & New Northern Europe: Baltics

2. Western Europe, Britain, Ireland, Benelux 3

3. Eastern Europe, Visegrad Four / Austria / Slovenia, Romania, Bulgaria

4. Core Europe: France and Germany

5. Southern Europe, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Greece, New Southern Europe: Malta, Cyprus

Part II: Foreign Policy Dimensions

6. Foreign Policy and Diplomacy

7. Security and Defence

8. Member State policy towards EY military operations

9. Enlargement and Geopolitics

10. Energy Security and Climate Change

11. Neighbourhood Policy

12. Development

13. External Facets of Justice, Freedom and Security

14. National Aims and Adaptations

15. EU in the World: From Multilateralism to Global Governance

16. Conclusion

Amelia Hadfield is the Director of the Centre for European Studies (CEFEUS) and the Jean Monnet Chair in European Foreign Affairs, at Canterbury Christ Church University.

Ian Manners is a Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Richard G. Whitman is Professor of Politics and International Relations and Head of the School of Politics and International Relations at the University of Kent, UK. He is also Associate Fellow at Chatham House and an Academic Fellow at the European Policy Centre.