The External Relations of the European Union

The book analyses the attitudes of non-EU countries towards European integration in historical and contemporary perspectives. The authors study a range of actors in Europe and beyond to explain the impact of the creation of the European Communities on the international system and how the EU is perceived in the world. The book further shows the significance of the institutional interplay within the EU, and between EU institutions, member states and external actors led by their own internal dynamics to explain policy outcomes. It investigates to what extent the perceptions of the international community towards the European Communities and the EU have been influenced by the complexity of their decision-making and the difficulty of reconciling the views of member states on key external relations issues. The authors also study the interplay of non-EU countries and the EU within the broader context of international and regional institutions and forums for international cooperation.

Pascaline Winand teaches at Monash University in Australia and at the Institute for European Studies of the Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. She holds a Jean Monnet Chair in International Relations and European Integration. She has published widely on EU external relations, including on US-EU and India-EU relations, and has a particular interest in comparative regionalism. Andrea Benvenuti is a Senior Lecturer in European Studies and International Relations at the University of New South Wales. His current research projects include Italy and the Eurozone crisis, Sino-American relations from 1940 to the present, and Australia and the Western alliance in Cold War Asia. Max Guderzo is Professor of the History of International Relations and Jean Monnet Chair of the History of European Unification at the School of Political Science 'Cesare Alfieri', University of Florence, and Research Co-ordinator of the Machiavelli Inter-University Centre for Cold War Studies (CIMA).

Contents: Andrea Benvenuti/Max Guderzo: The EU in International Affairs: A Global Actor Sui Generis - H. E. David Daly: EU Enlargement: A Success but Never a Simple Question of Time - Karolina Pietras: Differences in Collective Memory: Perception of Solidarnosc in Western Europe and in Poland - Andrea Benvenuti: Australia, the «Messina Initiative» and the Establishment of the EEC, 1955-1958 - Natalia Chaban and Sarah Christie: Images and Perceptions of the EU in New Zealand in the 1950s - Serena Kelly: The EU in New Zealand and Singapore: A Normative Power? - Daniel Novotný: The EU's Place in India's Foreign and Security Policy - Rajendra K. Jain: Contemporary Indian Perspectives on the EU and its Role in South Asia and the World - Emilian Kavalski: The European Union and India: Birds of a Feather or Frenemies for Ever? - Gudrun Wacker: The EU in the Asia-Pacific Region: Strategic Approach or Self-marginalization? - Marie Julie Chenard: The European Community's Policy towards the People's Republic of China: Establishing Diplomatic Relations (December 1973-May 1975) - Hitoshi Suzuki: From Trade Conflicts to «Global Partners»: Japan and the EEC 1970-1978 - Flora Anderson: Containing Chaos: American Social Sciences and Perceptions of a United Europe in the 1940s and 1950s - Max Guderzo: The US Perception of EC Enlargement: Cold War Constraints and Empire-building, 1962-73 - Rémy Davison: An Ever Closer Alliance?: Transforming the EU-NATO Partnership - Edward Moxon-Browne: A Two-Way Mirror: Latin-American Perceptions of European Integration - Ferdinand Leikam: A Matter of Preference: Commonwealth Africa, Britain and the EEC Association System, 1957-75 - Laura Kottos: Linking Europe and Empire: Making Strategic Choices on the Eve of the Treaty of Rome - Rostam J. Neuwirth: Global Governance and the Reform of the International Legal Order: Some Insights from the European Union - George Gilligan: The European Union, Multilateral Taxation and the Inevitability of Contest and Tension - Pascaline Winand: The European Rescue of the Empire or the EU as Ferment of Change in International Relations?