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"The Management of the EU's External Relations: A Case of Overstretch?"

Rees, Nicholas. (1995) "The Management of the EU's External Relations: A Case of Overstretch?". In: UNSPECIFIED, Charleston, South Carolina. (Unpublished)

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    Abstract

    This paper sets out to trace and examine how the Commission and the Council manage the CFSP, both on a daily basis and in crisis situations. A number of studies have focused on the CFSP in practice over the last eighteen months, particularly in relation to joint actions towards South Africa and Yugoslavia, however, less consideration has been given to looking at the management of the CFSP by the Union's institutions. This paper seeks to look at how the EU has managed to meet the new challenges made on it by the adoption of a single decision-making system and how it has utilised that system to meet the demands being made on it by states, regional and international organisations, as well as by events occurring in the international system. How has it coped with these demands, has it been largely reactlye towards them or has it developed the capability to formulate longer term policy in relation to EU objectives? The paper proceeds by first looking at Title V and the provisions for a CFSP and then focuses on those provisions relating to the management of the EU's external relations, and the division of responsibilities between the institutions: the Commission, Abstracts Council and European Parliament. The following section focuses on what has happened in practice, how the Community's external relations have been managed over the last eighteen months, what problems have arisen and how they have been resolved in the context of the Maastricht Treaty. In particular, the Union's actions towards South Africa and the former Yugoslavia are examined, as examples of how the EU has managed its external relations.

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    Item Type: Conference or Workshop Item (UNSPECIFIED)
    Uncontrolled Keywords: South Africa; crisis management.
    Subjects for non-EU documents: EU policies and themes > External relations > common foreign & security policy 1993--European Global Strategy
    EU policies and themes > External relations > EU-ACP
    Countries > Yugoslavia (former)
    EU policies and themes > EU institutions & developments > European Commission
    EU policies and themes > EU institutions & developments > Council of Ministers
    EU policies and themes > External relations > conflict resolution/crisis management
    Subjects for EU documents: UNSPECIFIED
    EU Series and Periodicals: UNSPECIFIED
    EU Annual Reports: UNSPECIFIED
    Conference: European Union Studies Association (EUSA) > Biennial Conference > 1995 (4th), May 11-14, 1995
    Depositing User: Phil Wilkin
    Official EU Document: No
    Language: English
    Date Deposited: 11 Apr 2007
    Page Range: p. 17
    Last Modified: 15 Feb 2011 17:45
    URI: http://aei.pitt.edu/id/eprint/7006

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