Europe's Cold War Relations: the EC Towards a Global Role

The book provides an authoritative analysis of the European Community's (EC) role in global affairs during the Cold War era, emphasizing the complexity of its external relations. It explores how the Cold War created a backdrop for the EC's foreign policy, highlighting interactions with regions such as the United States, Eastern Europe, the Mediterranean, China, and Japan. The volume critiques the European integration project and suggests that EC's power has shifted towards market influence rather than normative force, establishing it as a crucial text for understanding contemporary European external relations.