The Future of European Political Cooperation

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Introduction

   • Martin Holland

   Pages 1-7

3. European Political Cooperation and the Realist Paradigm

   • Alfred E. Pijpers

   Pages 8-35

4. The EC, EPC and the Decline of Bipolarity

   • Panos Tsakaloyannis

   Pages 36-51

5. European Political Cooperation: a World Systems Perspective

   • Stephen George

   Pages 52-69

6. Analysing European Political Cooperation: The Case for Two-tier Analysis

   • Simon Bulmer

   Pages 70-94

7. Western Europe’s Presence in the Contemporary International Arena

   • David Allen, Michael Smith

   Pages 95-120

8. EPC and the Single Act: from Soft Law to Hard Law?

   • Renaud Dehousse, Joseph H. H. Weiler

   Pages 121-142

9. EPC After the Single European Act: Towards a European Foreign Policy via Treaty Obligations?

   • Wolfgang Wessels

   Pages 143-160

10. The Twelve’s Dialogue with Third Countries — Progress Towards a Communauté d’ action?

    • Elfriede Regelsberger

    Pages 161-179

11. Sanctions as an EPC Instrument

    • Martin Holland

    Pages 180-198

12. Back Matter

    Pages 199-209

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This collected volume of essays focuses on two complementary themes: firstly, the theoretical approaches to the study of European Political Cooperation; and secondly, the empirical analysis of EPC activity. The volume does not argue one particular approach to the study of EPC, but rather presents competing, and often conflicting, theoretical perspectives. At the empirical level, a future research agenda is suggested and it is argued that EPC research should become comparative in nature.

• conflict
• cooperation
• dialogue
• Europe
• European Politic
• foreign policy
• nature
• research
• european union politics

• Department of Political Science, University of Canterbury, New Zealand

  Martin Holland

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