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The EU is by far the world’s most successful case of multilateralism. Its distinctive framework for cooperation and integration even extends to foreign and defence policy, traditionally seen to lie at the heart of ‘national sovereignty’. The EU member states have long declared that the EU will formulate and implement a common foreign and security policy, they have set up mechanisms to try to do this, and they have periodically reformed those mechanisms to make them more effective and efficient (often in response to quite spectacular failures to act collectively). The Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) is unique in international relations: in no other setting have states worked as closely together to try to achieve a collective stance on such a wide range of foreign and security policy issues.
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Smith, K.E. (2008). EU Foreign Policy and Asia. In: Balme, R., Bridges, B. (eds) Europe—Asia Relations. Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230583467_3
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