サイモン・ナッタル著『ヨーロッパ外交政策』

• 中野 悦子

  大阪市立大学大学院=当時

書誌事項

タイトル別名

• Simon J. Nuttall, European Foreign Policy, Oxford

抄録

Simon Nuttall, Professor at the College of Europe, Bruges, attempts to describe the events surrounding development of the European Foreign Policy from 1987 to 1994 from an historical perspective. Nuttall notes that the duty of an historian is “to paint a picture of the past in order to make it comprehensible”, and highlights that the aims of this book are to explain why such events occurred and to place the debate in wider political context. This book is a follow-up to his previous publication European Political Council in 1992, in which he also attempts to note the rule of an historian.<br>Interestingly enough, he emphasizes “the duty of an historian” in studying European Foreign Policy. Nuttall describes the events of European Foreign Policy and orients the narratives of them as well as “interpretive historical sociologists”, noted by Theda Skocpol. Recently only a few works on the European Union have been written from an historical perspective. Therefore his method as an “historian” makes his work very attractive.<br>Furthermore, Nuttall effectively stresses the theme of his book itself, his description and his assessment of the Common Security and Foreign Policy of the EU.<br>Nuttall discusses the foreign policy and security dimension of European Integration. According to Simon Duke, Associate Professor at the European Institute of Public Administration, Maastricht, recently quite a number of studies on European Integration have been concentrating on institutional aspects and theoretical discussions of the EU and detailed case studies on relations between Europe and non-European countries. These studies have been recognized as main stream in the academic context. Therefore, his work is a notable exception.<br>Secondly, when reading this book, one can capture the feeling of those who faced in such events. For instance, Nuttall writes on the process in which the draft on the CFSP changed, and how it was influenced by the Gulf War and the conflict of Yugoslavia. As one notes the process in making the CFSP with such events for background-reading as seen by the media, his description becomes much more lively.<br>Finally, Nuttall observes the extent to which the new CFSP differs from the old EPC, even though most academics argue it has not changed so much. Although this observation is not the main theme of this book, it is nevertheless very interesting.<br>Nuttall's work is undoubtedly unique and interesting. One may read the offstage and negotiation of the further development of European Foreign Policy in his next book.

収録刊行物

• 日本ＥＵ学会年報

  日本ＥＵ学会年報 2002 (22), 342-347,381, 2002

  日本EU学会

詳細情報

• CRID: 1390282680325917056
• NII論文ID: 130003879992
• DOI: 10.5135/eusj1997.2002.342
• ISSN: 18842739
• ISSN: 18843123
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