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Between 'soft power' and a hard place: European union foreign and security policy between the Islamic world and the United States / Smith, Michael   Journal Article
Smith, Michael Journal Article
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Publication 2009.
Summary/Abstract This paper explores the pressures operating on European Union Foreign and Security Policy in the 'triangle of forces' created by the European integration process, developments in the Islamic world and the responses of the United States. In the first section, the paper explores ideas about foreign policy and power in the European Union (EU), as exemplified in debates about the Lisbon Treaty and the future role of the Union. The second part of the paper sets out three logics inherent in the development of the Common Foreign and Security Policy, distinguishing between the 'internal' logic of the European integration process, the 'external' logic reflecting the opportunity structure in the world arena, which creates challenges and opportunities for the EU and its Member States, and the 'identity' logic, which creates a move towards self-realisation and 'self-recognition' on the part of the EU in international politics, and relates this to recent developments in European foreign and security policy. The paper then argues that the multi-dimensional 'triangle of forces' between European integration, the Islamic world and the United States has played a key role in focusing these developments, by posing challenges to the three logics and creating complex linkages between them. The Conclusion asks whether as a result EU foreign policy has been 'catalysed' (given new impetus and direction) or 'constrained' (subject to a process of external or self-limitation), and points to some early indications of the impact of the Obama Administration in the United States.
Key Words European Union  United States  Europe  European Security Policy  Islam 
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Beyond the comfort zone: internal crisis and external challenge in the European Union's response to rising powers / Smith, Michael   Journal Article
Smith, Michael Journal Article
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Publication 2013.
Summary/Abstract This article explores the extent to which the European Union (EU) has responded effectively to the rising powers of Asia, Latin America and Africa, and whether the Union has been able to construct an effective diplomacy for dealing with them. It starts from the observation that the EU has significantly developed its diplomatic apparatus since the Lisbon Treaty, and that this apparatus is largely directed towards the establishment of negotiated order at the regional and global levels. The article identifies a number of tensions and contradictions that arise from the EU's status and role in the global arena and that feed into its quest for negotiated order. It goes on to assess the challenges to EU positions and strategies that arise not only from the emergence of new powers in the world arena, but also from the changes in global structures and processes that accompany this development. The article then investigates how these challenges have interacted with the search for negotiated order in a series of issue areas: security, commercial policy, development, environment and energy. It argues that in recent years the EU has, in a variety of ways, been taken outside its comfort zone and that while the European Union can and must seek to re-establish negotiated order in its external relations, the challenge of doing so is severe.
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Bletchley park and the holocaust / Smith, Michael Summer 2004  Journal Article
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Publication Summer 2004.
Key Words Intelligence  National Secuirty 
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Devil you know:: the United States and a changing European community / Smith, Michael Jan 1992  Article
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Publication Jan 1992.
Description 103-120
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EU Diplomacy and the EU–China strategic relationship: framing, negotiation and management / Smith, Michael   Journal Article
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Summary/Abstract This article focuses on the development of the EU’s strategic relationship with China, by exploring the balance amongst three key mechanisms mobilized by the EU: framing, negotiation and management. The article outlines these issues in general, relating them to relevant conceptual and theoretical concerns, and then applies them to the EU–China strategic relationship. Through an examination of the framing ideas embodied in key documents, the development of an EU–China “negotiated order”, and the management of cooperation and competition in sectoral and institutional contexts, the article identifies a number of key tensions and requirements for effective coordination, which affect the potential development of an effective EU strategy.
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EU-China relations and the limits of economic diplomacy / Smith, Michael   Journal Article
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Publication 2014.
Summary/Abstract This paper addresses a key problem in EU-China economic relations: the capacity of the EU to exert leverage through its economic diplomacy in the context of key economic trends, policy dilemmas, and processes of governance. The paper begins by identifying key elements of the EU's economic diplomacy and their relationship to key functions: deliberation, representation, communication, and negotiation. It continues by reviewing key trends and challenges in EU-China economic relations, in terms of trade, finance/investment, and broader issues of economic performance, with special reference to the problems emanating from the current economic turbulence both in the EU and in the broader global political economy. It then identifies a number of key policy dilemmas for the EU in areas such as trade defense/trade promotion, environment/development, security/commercial priorities, nvestment/sovereignty, and explores these in terms of three key concepts: orientation, coordination, and effectiveness. In pursuing this analysis, the paper relates these trends and dilemmas to attempts to govern EU-China economic relations: public/private, bilateral/multilateral, and regulatory/political. In the final section of the paper, these efforts are evaluated in the context of the EU's economic diplomacy, with relation to key actors, processes, and outcomes and to the key functions of deliberation, representation, communication, and negotiation.
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European Union's Asia strategies: problems of foreign policy and international relations / Smith, Michael; Vichitsorasatra, Natee   Journal Article
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Publication 2010.
Summary/Abstract European Union (EU)-Asia relations raise linked problems (on the one hand) of EU collective action and identity and (on the other hand) of cooperation. The relationship is characterized by complexity and variety in three dimensions: first, 'voices' and history; second, institutional engagement and structure; and third, issue structure. In order to explore the implications of this complexity and variety, and to generate propositions for further research, we deploy International Relations theories based on material interests, ideas and institutions. These help us to demonstrate not only the application of 'analytical theory' but also the role of 'practitioner theory' in the evolution of relations between the EU and Asia, and thus to reflect systematically on the problems of collective action and cooperation identified at the beginning of the article.
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European Union's roles in international politics: concepts and analysis / Elgstrom, Ole (ed); Smith, Michael (ed) 2006  Book
Smith, Michael Book
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Publication London, Routledge, 2006.
Description xix, 260p.
Standard Number 0415390931
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Foreign policy and development in the post-Lisbon European Unio / Smith, Michael   Journal Article
Smith, Michael Journal Article
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Publication 2013.
Summary/Abstract The European Union (EU) has a long tradition of involvement in development policy and can claim to be the world's most influential donor when the activities of its member states are aggregated. Recently, however, this position has been challenged by the rise of new donors and models of development assistance, by the changing needs and positions of recipients and by institutional change within the EU itself. This article explores these issues by focusing first on the nature of EU foreign policy, and then on the ways in which it has interacted with the changing trajectory of development policies to create new issues and problems. It concludes that the EU's position remains central and significant to global development policy, but that this position faces important challenges to which the response is as yet uncertain.
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Intelligence-sharing failures hamper war on terrorism / Smith, Michael Jul 2005  Journal Article
Smith, Michael Journal Article
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Publication Jul 2005.
Key Words Terrorism  Intelligence  Insurgency  War on Terrorism 
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International relations and the European Union / Hill, Christopher (ed.); Smith, Michael (ed.) 2005  Book
Smith, Michael Book
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Publication Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2005.
Description xxiv, 469p.
Series New European Union series
Standard Number 0199273480
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Issues in world politics / White, Brian (ed.); Little, Richard (ed.); Smith, Michael (ed.) 2005  Book
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Edition 3rd ed.
Publication Hampshire, Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
Description xvii, 326p.
Standard Number 9781403946119
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Issues in world politics / White, Brian (ed); Little Richard (ed); Smith, Michael (ed) 1997  Book
Smith, Michael Book
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Publication London, Macmillan Press Ltd., 1997.
Description xvi, 297p.
Standard Number 0333676505
Key Words World Politics - 1989 
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Perspectives on world politics / Smith, Michael (ed); Shackleton, Michael (ed); Little, Richard (ed) 1981  Book
Smith, Michael Book
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Publication London, Croom Helm, 1981.
Description 431p.
Standard Number 0709923023
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Spying game: the secret history of British espionage / Smith, Michael 2003  Book
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Publication London, Politico's Publishing, 2003.
Description vii, 502p.
Standard Number 1842750046
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Station X: the codebreakers of bletchley park / Smith, Michael 2000  Book
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Edition 2nd ed.
Publication London, Channel Four Books, 2000.
Description 184p.Pbk
Standard Number 0752271482
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Teaching active citizenship: a companion to the traditional political science curriculum / Smith, Michael; Graham, Bob   Journal Article
Smith, Michael Journal Article
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Publication 2014.
Summary/Abstract The authors of this article advocate a new curriculum that can be applied to American government, introduction to political science, and state and local government courses. For the past half-century, high school and college general-education requirements have deemphasized civics, government, and political science. In response to the corresponding decrease in the nation's civic health, this proposal is based on three principles. First, teaching citizenship is different than teaching civics. Second, citizenship is taught most effectively by engagement in the "real world," with students completing projects that take them step by step through the policy-change process. Finally, the education and preparation of future high school government teachers needs to change to encourage them to teach their students the rights, responsibilities, and competencies of active citizenship.
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Western Europe and the United States: the uncertain alliance / Smith, Michael 1984  Book
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Publication London, George Allen & Unwin (Publihers) Limited, 1984.
Description viii, 152p.
Standard Number 0043270727
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