Foreign Policies of EU Member States

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.

• Introduction Part I: Geographic Orientations / Geopolitics1. Northern Europe: Denmark, Sweden, Finland & New Northern Europe: Baltics2. 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 Dimensions6. Foreign Policy and Diplomacy7. Security and Defence 8. Member State policy towards EY military operations9. Enlargement and Geopolitics 10. Energy Security and Climate Change 11. Neighbourhood Policy 12. Development13. External Facets of Justice, Freedom and Security 14. National Aims and Adaptations15. EU in the World: From Multilateralism to Global Governance16. Conclusion

‘For the many scholars and students who have used the first edition of The Foreign Policies of EU Member States as a key reference and resource, this second edition is very welcome. It also represents a significant advance in our understanding of foreign policies in the EU, combining as it does analysis based on the geopolitical orientations and roles of the member states with their engagement in a series of cross-cutting issues, and enables important comparative conclusions to be drawn. The result is a rich and provocative collection of case-studies as well as a stimulating comparative analysis.’Michael Smith, University of Warwick, UK.‘This most welcomed edited book provides an indispensable contribution to studying and understanding EU foreign policy by linking the diverse historic and geostrategic foundations of Member States’ identity and preferences, to those domestic dimensions’ influence on forging a ‘common’ foreign policy across often rather contentious foreign policy fields. It is thus an invaluable read for academics’ as much as for actual foreign policy-makers’ interested in comprehending the challenge of achieving ‘unity in diversity’ in EU foreign policy-making.’Ingo Peters, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.