Analysing the foreign policy of small states in the EU; the case of Denmark.

033396473X

Analysing the foreign policy of small states in the EU; the case of Denmark.

Larsen, Henrik.

Palgrave Macmillan

2005

242 pages

$85.00

Hardcover

DL261

Although there has been a lot of talk about how the EU foreign policy system has fundamentally changed the nature of small member states' foreign policy, in the view of Larsen (international relations, U. of Copenhagen, Denmark) there has been not enough effort put into empirically testing this idea. Here he attempts such an empirical study of the case of Denmark, asking the extent to which Danish foreign policy is conducted within the EU, whether Denmark attempted to expand the scope of EU foreign policy into new areas, whether Denmark has been active within the areas he examines, whether the EU framework is constitutive of Danish policy stances, and whether Danish foreign policy uses the same language as EU foreign policy. He addresses these questions by examining the substance of Danish foreign policy in the areas of bilateral policy towards other EU member states, anti-terror, the Balkans, development cooperation and aid, Africa, Latin America, and trade.

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