The Making of EU Foreign Policy

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Conceptualizing EU Foreign Policymaking

   • Karen E. Smith

   Pages 1-21

3. The Community’s Relations with Eastern Europe Through 1988

   • Karen E. Smith

   Pages 22-42

4. Developing a Common Foreign Policy Towards Eastern Europe, 1988–9

   • Karen E. Smith

   Pages 43-65

5. Aid

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   Pages 66-82

6. Association

   • Karen E. Smith

   Pages 83-102

7. Integration

   • Karen E. Smith

   Pages 103-134

8. Conflict Prevention

   • Karen E. Smith

   Pages 135-161

9. Explaining the Making of a Foreign Policy Towards Eastern Europe

   • Karen E. Smith

   Pages 162-183

10. Back Matter

    Pages 185-264

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This book argues that there has been a common European Union (EU) foreign policy towards six countries of Eastern Europe - Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia - and analyses why the EU has agreed to the policy. The objective of the EU's policy is to support the transformation of Eastern Europe and thus ensure security and stability. The most important instrument that the EU has used to reach this objective has been the prospect of enlargement.

• Europe
• European Union
• European Union (EU)
• foreign policy
• european union politics

• Department of International Relations, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK

  Karen E. Smith

KAREN E. SMITH is a Lecturer in the Department of International Relations at the London School of Economics. In 1996-7, she was a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy.

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