Description
This study explores the EU's record as a global actor since the creation of the Common Foreign and Security Policy in 1993. Chapters focus on: the interface between EU foreign and trade policies; the EU's relationship with European defence organizations; its behaviour within the OSCE and UN; the institutional consequences of the CFSP; and case studies of EU policies towards Central and Eastern Europe and the Maghreb countries. The editors draw the findings together to assess whether the EU has been successful as a global actor and consider the question: can the EU become a more credible, reliable and unitary global actor?.