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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.
Table of contents:
1 The study of EU foreign policy: between international relations and European studies / Ben Tonra and Thomas Christiansen
2 Theorising the European Union's foreign policy / Knud Erik Jørgensen
3 International relations or European integration: is the CFSP sui generis? / Jakob C. Øhrgaard
4 Foreign policy analysis and European foreign policy / Brian White
5 Discourse analysis in the study of European foreign policy / Henrik Larsen
6 Role identity and the Europeanisation of foreign policy: a political–cultural approach / Lisbeth Aggestam
7 Interests, institutions and identities in the study of European foreign policy / Adrian Hyde-Price
8 Theory and practice of multi-level foreign policy: the European union's policy in the field of arms export controls /
Sibylle Bauer and Eric Remacle
9 Justifying EU foreign policy: the logics underpining EU enlargement / Helene Sjursen and Karen E. Smith

This paper examines the role that culture, the information society, and media play in forming stable and productive communities. Through a theory of culture defined by conflict and play, it examines the history of Europe as a concept, issues of continental identity, and the impact/intent of European Union policy initiatives regarding culture and media. It suggests that although some EU policy approaches are well designed, there is a great deal of room for improvement in their conceptualisation and execution. By understanding culture and media to be intertwined but not identical, we can see how the arts and media can be used to create community not only in their distribution and consumption but also in the very fact of their creation. Moreover, by situating culture and media within contemporary socio-political frameworks, particularly the deregulatory atmosphere supported by transnational corporate interests and the construction of a commodified neoliberal citizen, the paper argues for a conceptualisation of culture that can exist within contemporary systems of capital while retaining the potential for oppositional and critical ontologies. It concludes with specific suggestions for EU policy and funding directives through analyses of two visual culture phenomena, the 2002 film L'Auberge Espanole and the 2005 Venice Biennale.

This report provides answers to key questions related to the European Union (EU). It describes the EU's evolution, its governing institutions, trade policy, and efforts to forge common foreign and defense policies. The report also addresses the EU-U.S. and EU-NATO relationships.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Acronyms -- Introduction -- The Maastricht Treaty and Beyond -- France and Germany -- The Maastricht Treaty and Integration Theory -- Book Structure and Plan -- Notes -- 1 The European Community Before 1989 -- Origins and Historical Evolution of the EC -- The European Monetary System -- Europe Relaunched: The 1992 Project and SEA -- The Delors Plan for Monetary Union -- The EC Before November 1989 -- Notes -- 2 After the Wall: The Road to Rome -- The Revolution in Eastern Europe -- The New German Question -- Initial Responses -- The Franco-German Rift -- The Dublin Summits and EPU -- New Uncertainties -- The Rome Summit and IGCs -- Notes -- 3 Negotiating Maastricht: Economic and Monetary Union -- National Positions on EMU -- The European Central Bank -- The Nature of Stage Two -- The Transition to Stage Three -- EC Fiscal and Budgetary Authority -- The Cohesion Fund -- The Maastricht EMU Treaty -- Notes -- 4 Negotiating Maastricht: Political Union -- National Positions on Political Union -- Foreign Policy and Defense -- The EP and Democratic Deficit -- Extending the Community's Reach -- The Luxembourg Draft -- The Dutch Draft -- The Maastricht Agreement on EPU -- Notes -- 5 The Ratification Crisis -- A Difficult Beginning -- The Danish Veto -- The French Referendum -- The First Currency Crisis -- The Edinburgh Summit -- The Second Danish Referendum -- The Second Currency Crisis -- Final Ratification -- Notes -- 6 Consolidating the Union -- Evaluating the Post-Maastricht Crisis -- The New Pragmatism -- Toward 1996 -- Future Challenges -- Notes -- Conclusion: The End of the Cold War and the Future of European Integration -- Three Key Consequences -- Two Logics of Integration -- A Multispeed Europe? -- Two Models for the Future -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography

Bürgerrechte in Europa.

This study is a cross-national comparative content analysis of the coverage of European Union politics in British, Danish, Dutch, French, & German television news. The study identifies key characteristics of the coverage & investigates influences shaping the coverage. In the majority of countries studied, EU politics was marginally represented in national television news. EU officials, too, were absent in the news. However, if the EU was covered, EU politics was more prominently presented than other political news. Three influences were found to positively contribute to the amount & prominence of EU news: it was more prominent in public broadcasting news programs, in countries with higher levels of public satisfaction with democracy, & during periods around EU summits. The visibility of EU officials in television news was highest in public news programs. The findings suggest that, with EU coverage being of limited visibility & without protagonists, the Europeanization of television news coverage is more an illusion than reality. 3 Tables, 1 Appendix, 36 References. [Reprinted by permission of Sage Publications Inc., copyright 2004 by the President and the Fellows of Harvard College.]

The European Union should be well-placed to exercise influence at the United Nations, as it is endowed with many material and ideational power resources that could enable it to win approval for its positions and proposals. Yet it encountered hostility when it sought enhanced observer status in the General Assembly and it has often been isolated at the Human Rights Council. The EU's failures to translate its putative power resources into influence in international affairs are often attributed to a lack of unity within the EU, but even when the EU is united at the UN, it may not win support. To help explain why, this article focuses on the UN as a locus of the international politics of legitimization, where UN Member States seek approval for their positions and policies, and base their appeals for support on competing principles and values.