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Collection of papers (in English, 296 pages) presented by researchers and practitioners at various forums held in 2004 within the Network of research and teaching on European foreign policy “FORNET”.
The book contains analyses on the evolution of CFSP and its relation to internal security, strategic EU relations with the US and NATO, regional dimensions of Europe’s security and defence (in the Western Balkans, Cyprus, Middle East and Africa), EU neighbourhood policy, crisis management, countering terrorist financing, integration of EU defence industries, fiscal backing of CFSP, etc.
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CONTENTS Introduction Pushing the stone uphill: the endless trials of Europe’s common foreign policy CFSP – dream and fiscal realities The EU and the US: An increasingly difficult relationship Two dilemmas between Brussels and Moscow (essay on the Euro-Russian partnership) Perspectives for EU – Western Balkan relations: From post-stabilisation towards pre-accession? EU conditional assistance as a foreign policy tool towards South Eastern Europe Impact of the European Neighbourhood Policy on the South Caucasus and the Western New Independent States (West-NIS) Not such a soft power: the external deployment of European armed forces The transatlantic division of labour: The Western Balkans as a testing ground Integrating aerospace and defence industries in EU member states and ESDP American and European action for combating terrorist financing What possible role for the EU in the Middle East Peace Process (in the aftermath of 11 September 2001)? The Greek contribution to CFSP and civilian crisis management The African Union as a peace-maker: challenges before EU policy towards Africa Beyond the Annan Plan: is there a role for the EU in Cyprus? * LIST OF AUTHORS ANGEL ANGELOV is doctoral candidate at the Department of Political Science, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, and Teaching Development Programme Fellow at the Civic Education Project ELENI DEMIRI is researcher at the Institute of European Integration and Policy at the University of Athens, Greece; she holds an MA in International Relations and European Studies from the University of Kent, UK MATTHEW GABEL is associate professor at the Department of Political Science, University of Kentucky, USA, and co-editor of “Journal of European Union Politics” (Sage Publications) BASTIAN GIEGERICH is completing his doctorate at the Department of International Relations, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), UK ESRA HATIPOGLU has a doctorate in political science and international relations; she works at the European Community Institute, Marmara University – Istanbul, Turkey CHRISTOPHER HILL is professor at the Centre for International Studies, University of Cambridge, UK; until July 2004 he was director of the European Foreign Policy Unit at the Department of International Relations, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), UK; in 2003-2005 he is general coordinator of the FORNET network GIORGOS KENTAS is doctoral candidate at the Brussels Free University (VUB), Belgium, and research fellow at the Research and Development Centre – Intercollege in Nicosia (until October 2004); he is also member of the Executive Board of the Cyprus Institute of Mediterranean, European and International Studies (KIMEDE) in Nicosia VASSILIS MARAGOS is counselor for political and economic issues, European Commission Delegation in Skopje, Macedonia (FYROM); previously he worked as counselor for political and economic issues at the European Commission Delegation in Sofia, Bulgaria VASSIL MAREKOV is doctoral candidate at the Department of European Studies, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” COSTAS MELAKOPIDES is associate professor of international relations at the University of Cyprus; he is also co-founder and president of the Cyprus Institute of Mediterranean, European and International Studies (KIMEDE) – Nicosia, Cyprus LYUBOV MINCHEVA has a doctorate from the University of Maryland, College Park, USA; she teaches at the Political Science Department of Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”; she is also Senior Research Associate at the Institute for Regional and International Studies (IRIS) – Sofia, and Affiliated Researcher with the Center for International Development and Conflict Management at the University of Maryland, College Park, USA HANSPETER NEUHOLD is professor of public international law and international relations and director of the Institute of International Law and International Relations, University of Vienna, Austria KRASSIMIR NIKOLOV is secretary general of the Bulgarian European Community Studies Association (BECSA); he teaches as Jean Monnet lecturer in European integration at the New Bulgarian University (NBU) – Sofia, and Varna Free University “Chernorizets Hrabar” PLAMEN RALCHEV is doctoral candidate at the Department of International Relations, University for National and World Economy (UNWE) – Sofia, Bulgaria; he works as Policy Analyst at the Institute for Regional and International Studies (IRIS), Sofia RADY STOYANOV is doctoral candidate at the Department of International Relations, University for National and World Economy – Sofia, Bulgaria; he works as desk officer for South Eastern Europe at the Bulgarian Economic Forum KAMEN VELICHKOV is counselor at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Bulgaria, forme r Bulgarian ambassador to the Netherlands (1996-2001), foreign policy advisor to the President of the Republic (1992-1996) and first Bulgarian chargé d’affaires in Israel (1990-1992) EVANGELOS VLIORAS is research fellow at the Hellenic Centre of European Studies and Research (EKEME) – Athens, Greece; he holds an MA in European and International Studies from the University of Athens, Greece WILLIAM WALLACE is professor of international relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), UK, and spokesman on foreign policy for the Liberal Democrats in the British House of Lords * PRESENTATION OF PAPERS IN THIS VOLUME
The final version of the paper of B. Giegerich & W. Wallace was published in: Survival, vol. 46, no. 2, Summer 2004, pp. 163-182. It is reprinted in this volume with the permission of Oxford University Press * The promotion of the book took place on 21 April 2005 at the FORNET conference in Brussels and on 14 June 2005 at the Diplomatic Institute in Sofia. * Заявка за закупуване на книгата можете да направите ТУК. * You can submit an order for the purchase of this book HERE. |
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