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EU Foreign Policymaking and the Middle East Conflict The Europeanization of national foreign policy

By Patrick Müller Copyright 2012
184 Pages
by Routledge

184 Pages
by Routledge

184 Pages
by Routledge

This book examines the interplay between the national and the European levels in EU foreign policymaking, focusing on the Middle East. European engagement in peacemaking in the Middle East dates back to foreign-policy cooperation in the early 1970s. Following the launch of the peace process in 1991, the EU and its Member States further stepped up their involvement in conflict resolution,... Read more

1. Introduction  2. National and EU Foreign Policy  3. Historic Overview: The EU and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict  4. Germany and the EU's Conflict Resolution Policy: From Self-Restraint to Action  5. France and the EU's Conflict Resolution Policy: From Dominance to Constraint  6. The UK: Promoting a Transatlantic Approach to Conflict Resolution  7. The Europeanization of National Foreign Policy

Biography

Patrick Müller is a Research Fellow at the Institute for European Integration Research, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna. He has a Phd in Political Science from the University of Vienna.