Review: European Union: Western European Union
| Published date | 01 June 1998 |
| Date | 01 June 1998 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1177/002070209805300225 |
| Subject Matter | Review |
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but
it
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substantial
enough
to
tion
to get
Germany into
NATO
on
a
make
anyone completely
confident
controlled
basis
and
to reassure
about the
answers.
France
that
Britain
was
committed
to
the
defence
of
Europe.
Once this
THE
STATE
OF
THE
EUROPEAN
UNION
work
was
done, nobody
had
any
vol.
4:
deepening
and
widening
immediate
use
for
it,
but
in
the
last
edited
by
Pierre-Henri
Laurent
and
dozen
years
various
European
coun-
Marc
Maresceau
tries
have
thought
they could
Boulder
Co
and
London:
Lynne
advance
their
policy objectives by
Rienner,
1998,
x,
374pp,
$50.00
reviving
it,
and
it
played
some
part
in
organising the
response
to
the
A useful
list
of
101
acronyms
of
rel-
break-up
of
Yugoslavia.
This
inter-
evant
organizations
and institutions
esting
set
of
articles
shows
the
dif-
is
printed
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the
end
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book,
ferent
objectives
involved,
but
is
far
which
really
is
designed
for
those
too polite
to
point
out
that
they
can
who
are
familiar
with
what
is
going
hardly
all
be
achieved.
on
in
their
area
of
interest
and
want
a
detailed
introduction
to
what
is
happening
in
other
parts
of
the
GENERAL
development
of
EU
affairs.
Sections
on
the
way
enlargement
has
worked
CANADA
AMONG
NATIONS
1997
on
previous
occasions,
on
the
EU's
Asia
Pacific
face-off
response
to
its
decision
to
set
up
a
Edited
by
Fen
Osler
Hampson,
Common
Foreign
and
Security
Pol-
Maureen
Appel
Molot,
and
Martin
icy,
on
commitments
in
social
poli-
Rudner
cy,
on
the
developing
monetary
Ottawa:
Carleton
University
Press,
union,
and on
relations with
coun-
1997,
x,
32
5pp,
$24.95
tries
outside
the
EU
provide
a
good
deal
of
substance
for
specialists.
T
he
13th
volume
in
the
venera-
Tble
Canada
Among
Nations
WESTERN
EUROPEAN
UNION
concentrates
on Canada's
involve-
1954-1997
ment
with
a
region alternatively
Defence, security,
integration
conceived
of
as
Asia
or
Asia
Pacific.
edited
by Anne
Deighton
The
focus
is
a
valuable
one
consid-
Oxford:
European Interdependence
ering
that
1997
was
Canada's
Year
Research
Unit,
viii,
193pp,
£10.00
of
Asia
Pacific,
accompanied
by
more
than 600
events
across
the
Western European
Union
was
origi-
country culminating
in
the
Asia
nally
devised
in
1954
as
an
institu-
Pacific
Economic
Cooperation
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JOURNAL
Spring
1998
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