The Europeanization of National Foreign Policies towards Latin America

Who shapes the European Union’s policy towards Latin America? How has this EU policy modified individual member states’ relations with the region?

This book provides a comparative account of seven member states’ bilateral links with Latin America since 1945, in the context of their EU membership and based on the concept of ‘Europeanization’. It illustrates how and why the main architects of this EU policy have been Spain and Germany. In contrast, Poland, Sweden and Ireland, which had little previous interaction with Latin America, have developed their current relations with that region virtually as a result of their EU membership. The United Kingdom and France lie in the middle: they have been influential in certain policy-areas and key periods in history, while they have adapted to what is done at the EU level in others.

Practitioners, established academic experts as well emerging scholars in the field bring to be bear a novel combination of pioneering research and cutting edge conceptual analysis on this important but neglected area of the EU’s foreign relations.

Contents:
+ Introduction: Europeanization and National Foreign Policies towards Latin America - Lorena Ruano
Chapter 1. The Conceptual Framework - Lorena Ruano
Chapter 2. Spain: Double Track Europeanization and the Search for Bilateralism - José Antonio Sanahuja
Chapter 3. Germany: From Advocate to Bystander–and Back? - Bettina Trueb
Chapter 4. France: From Uploads to Disengagement - Georges Couffignal
Chapter 5. The United Kingdom: Semi-Detached Uploads - Lorena Ruano and Laurence Whitehead
Chapter 6. Sweden: From Original Profile to ‘Blending in’ - Rebecka Villanueva Ulfgard
Chapter 7. Poland: Download and the Development of a Policy - Piotr Maciej Kaczyński
Chapter 8. Ireland: Direct Download to Tentative Bilateralism - Peadar ó Broin
+ Conclusion: Changing Dynamics of Europeanization and National Policies towards Latin America - Lorena Ruano