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The European Union's frequent inability to wield its international power effectively in the pursuit of European interests constitutes one of the most fascinating paradoxes of the 'European project. This book makes an original contribution to the debate by bringing together competing visions of the EU's Common Foreign and Security Policy. It offers a definitive assessment of the post-Maastricht evolution of the EU's role as a global actor, as well as a prognosis for the CFSP given the reforms mandated by the 1997 Amsterdam Treaty.
A key finding which emerges from this volume is that the Common Foreign and Security Policy is easily viewed as a myth. Despite the promises of the Maastricht Treaty, the CFSP does not cover 'all aspects of foreign and security policy' and is not always made in a `spirit of loyalty and mutual solidarity'. However, the CFSP is an evolving process and Europe has never been more united than it is today in its relations with the rest of the world. John Peterson is Jean Monnet Senior Lecturer in European Politics at the University of Glasgow. Helene Sjursen is Senior Researcher at the Advanced Research on the Europeanization of the Nation State (ARENA) at the University of Oslo.
