Getting to Grips with European Union Foreign Policy
Diplomacy and Statecraft, Vol.14, No.3, 2003, pp.183-197. ISSN: 0959-2296.
Posted: 17 Jun 2012
Date Written: March 1, 2003
Abstract
What exactly is European Union foreign policy? For much of the last decade, EU foreign policy has often been regarded as being synonymous with the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) that was set out in the 1993 Maastricht Treaty on European Union. This policy was shaped by three dominant factors: first, the ending of the Cold War; second, the parallel reassessment of European security structures; and third, a realisation that despite the relative successes of European Political Cooperation, the EU required a stronger policy to tackle the challenges of the ‘New Europe’.
Keywords: European Union, Common Foreign and Security Policy
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