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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of tables and boxes -- Preface -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Europe and the European Union -- 2 Back to the future -- 3 Belonging without believing -- 4 Leading from behind: opt-outs, opt-ins, rebates and red lines -- 5 Party games and politics -- 6 Devolution and European Union membership -- 7 The press and the European Union -- 8 The pound, the euro and the City: brief encounters and quick exits -- 9 Britain, the European Union and the wider world -- 10 'Banging on about Europe': the Conservatives and the European Union 2010-15 -- 11 Hallmarks of British membership of the EU -- 12 The Referendum of 2016: the campaign -- 13 The Referendum of 2016: the result -- 14 The May government and Brexit, 2016-19: decline and fail -- 15 The Brexiter government, 2019-20 -- Chronological table -- Bibliography -- Index.

This book reviews a variety of approaches to the study of the European Union's foreign policy. Much analysis of EU foreign policy contains implicit theoretical assumptions about the nature of the EU and its member states, their inter-relationships, the international system in which they operate and the nature and direction of European integration. In many instances such assumptions - not being discussed openly - limit, rather than facilitate debate. The purpose of this book is to open up this field of enquiry so that students, observers and analysts of EU foreign policy can review a broad range of tools and theoretical templates from which the development and the trajectory of the EU's foreign policy can be studied. Situated as it is at the interface between European Studies and International Relations, the book also seeks to engage the attention of readers who are anxious to understand how the European Union relates to the rest of the world and to explain the efforts of the EU and its member states towards the creation of a credible, effective and principled foreign, security and defence policy.

AbstractThis article aims to start filling a gap in contemporary research on the rotating EU presidencies. In particular, the article pays attention to the role played by domestic factors in the development and fate of EU presidencies. What is the level of conflict between the government and the opposition during EU presidencies? This question is central for us and we address it through an in-depth analysis of one single case, Sweden, through a comparative examination of the role that domestic politics played in the Swedish EU presidencies of 2001 and 2009. In conjunction with our four main explanations for the varying degrees of political conflict during EU presidencies we present four hypotheses that could be advanced in the comparative study of EU presidencies.