Most of the book deals with very traditional and somewhat overlapping topics on the EU’s external relations. However straightforward the overall diagnosis in the book is, sepulchral silence remains in relation to the prognosis of the EU’s external relations. For example, in his conclusions,...

With the process of a wider Europe (EU-Commission President Romano Prodi's ring of friends) that extends from Marrakech in Morocco to St. Petersburg in Russia gathering speed, the growing rift between Europe and America also is about how to deal politically with the countries of the...

The last decade has seen the EU striving to bring uniformity into its relations with its immediate neighbors. Such endeavor has led the EU to adopt the European Neighborhood Policy towards countries with no immediate prospects of accession and to follow more or less similar pre-accession...