The European Union as a Small Power After the Post-Cold War [Paperback]

The post-Cold War period is coming to an end. After a decade of foreign policy integration Europe faces multipolarity internally divided and externally weak. Toje argues that due to the lack of a workable decision-making mechanism the EU is destined to play the limited but distinct role of a small power in global politics.Foreword Introduction and basic arguments The Anatomy of EU Security The European Union as a Historical Phenomenon European Defence: the State of the Union The European Security Strategy Revisited Lessons from the Field A Question of Political Will The Making of a Small Power Conclusion: After the post-Cold War Small-power politics The purpose of EU power References

'A striking analysis of foreign and security policy during the opening decade of the century' Philip Stephens, Financial Times.

Recommended holiday reading, The Economist

'A fascinating tale of great ambitions and limited capacity to met them. The great strength of Asle Toje's absorbing, detailed and much-needed study is to show what role the European Union might be expected to play under multipolarity. If the fate of the EU has been bound up with the evolution of Europe, then the history of the foreign policy he reveals has been closely shaped by the lack of a workable decision-making mechanism - and by a shared national interest. At last a study that sets contemporary European security and the European Union in its broader international context.' - Robert Kagan, author of The Return of History and Paradise and Power

'Now that the Lisbon Treaty has entered into force and appointments to the three top jobs have been made, the European Union can no longer hide behind its own bureaucratic inertia as an excuse for inactivity in a dangerous world. Asle Toje, with his characteristically hard-headed approach to the EU's aspirations to become a global player, asks the really tough questions which cannot be obfuscated. Whether one agl÷