The foreign policy of the European Union : assessing Europe's role in the world / Federiga Bindi, editor.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword / Giuliano Amato -- Introduction / Federiga Bindi and Irina Angelescu -- Part I. The European Union's foreign policy tools -- European Union foreign policy : a historical overview / Federiga Bindi -- The new EU foreign policy under the treaty of Lisbon / Nicola Verola -- European security and defense policy : from taboo to a spearhead of EU foreign policy? / Stephan Keukeleire -- Justice and home affairs as a new tool of European foreign policy / Francesca Longo -- Competition policy as a tool of EU foreign policy : multilateralism, bilateralism, and soft convergence / Alberto Heimler -- The European Neighborhood Policy : assessing the EU's policy toward the region / Tom Casier -- Part II. The European Union and its neighbors -- The European Union and Russia : past, present, and future of a difficult relationship / Lara Piccardo -- EU policy toward Ukraine and Belarus : diverging paths? / Serena Giusti and Tomislava Penkova -- The Balkans and the European Union / Luca Gori -- EU enlargement : the challenge and promise of Turkey / Joseph S. Joseph -- The EU and the Mediterranean nonmember states / Alfred Tovias -- The EU and the Middle East / Stefania Panebianco -- Is Sarkozy's Union for the Mediterranean going to work? / Khalid Emara -- Part III. Relations between the EU and other countries -- U.S.-EU relations : putting the Bush years in perspective / Andrew Moravcsik -- Economics and security : a reversed alliance / Marta Dassù and Roberto Menotti -- Relations between the EU and Latin America and the Caribbean : competition or cooperation with the United States? / Joaquín Roy -- EU-Canada relations : a case of mutual neglect? / Finn Laursen -- The EU in Africa: increasing coherence, decreasing partnership / Maurizio Carbone -- Regionalism, interregionalism, and bilateralism : the EU and the Asia-Pacific / Philomena Murray -- The EU-China relationship : from cooperation to strategic partnership / Mara Caira -- Part IV. Promoting values and models abroad -- EU integration and other integration models / Bernard Yvars -- Human rights, peace, and democracy : is "model power Europe" a contradiction in terms? / Laura C. Ferreira-Pereira -- U.S. and EU strategies for promoting democracy / Elena Baracani -- Perceptions of EU foreign policy outside Europe / Martin Holland and Natalia Chaban -- Part V. Conclusion -- EU foreign policy : myth or reality? / Federiga Bindi and Jeremy Shapiro.

In a relatively short amount of time, the EU has become one of the world's most powerful and important actors on the world stage. Now for the first time this volume explores the goals and effectiveness of the EU's special approach to foreign policy; how its policy is perceived by outsiders and the ramifications of those views; the EU's relations with its neighbors, as well as countries well beyond its borders; and how the EU has and can promote its values abroad. "Explores European foreign policy and the degree of European Union success in proposing itself as a valid international actor, drawing from expertise of scholars and practitioners in many disciplines from North America, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. Addresses issues past and present, theoretical and practice-oriented, and country- and region-specific"--Provided by publisher.