This text provides a clear and current overview of the motivations and outcomes of EU Member States regarding their foreign policy-making within and beyond the EU. It provides an in-depth analysis of intra-EU policy-making, and sheds light in an innovative and understandable way on the lesser known aspects of the inter-EU and extra-EU foreign policies of the 28 Member States.

Amelia Hadfield is the Director of the Centre for European Studies (CEFEUS) and the Jean Monnet Chair in European Foreign Affairs, at Canterbury Christ Church University.

Ian Manners is a Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Richard G. Whitman is Professor of Politics and International Relations and Head of the School of Politics and International Relations at the University of Kent, UK. He is also Associate Fellow at Chatham House and an Academic Fellow at the European Policy Centre.

Introduction

Part I: Geographic Orientations / Geopolitics

1. Northern Europe: Denmark, Sweden, Finland & New Northern Europe: Baltics

2. Western Europe, Britain, Ireland, Benelux 3

3. Eastern Europe, Visegrad Four / Austria / Slovenia, Romania, Bulgaria

4. Core Europe: France and Germany

5. Southern Europe, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Greece, New Southern Europe: Malta, Cyprus

Part II: Foreign Policy Dimensions

6. Foreign Policy and Diplomacy

7. Security and Defence

8. Member State policy towards EY military operations

9. Enlargement and Geopolitics

10. Energy Security and Climate Change

11. Neighbourhood Policy

12. Development

13. External Facets of Justice, Freedom and Security

14. National Aims and Adaptations

15. EU in the World: From Multilateralism to Global Governance

16. Conclusion