Review: Foreign Ministries in the European Union
| Author | Greg Donaghy |
| Published date | 01 September 2003 |
| DOI | 10.1177/002070200305800318 |
| Date | 01 September 2003 |
| Subject Matter | Review |
Reviews
could
not
recognize
the
pictures
of
those
seeking
office,
let
alone
read
the
ballots. (Creole,
the
prevailing language
spoken
by
the
dispossessed
class,
became
a
written
language
only in
the
last
few
decades,
thanks
largely
to
foreign scholarship.)
Fatton
scarcely
mentions
the
impact
of
attempting
to
"template"
French,
and now
North
American,
political
concepts
in an
oral
society.
Education
is
one
area
in
which
Canada
has
the
tools
to
assist.
CODE
and
the
Developing
Countries
Farm Radio
Network
are
but
two examples
of
Canadian
agencies
with
relevant
expertise.
Regardless
of
how
"unending"
the
process
may
seem,
if
Haiti
was
worth
the
Canadian
efforts
of
the
past
15
years,
then
surely
it
still
is.
Anyone
proposing
or
implementing
suggestions
for programs
to
assist
in
Haitian
democratization would
be
well-advised to
read
Fatton's
book.
Although it
is
often discouraging
reading,
the questions
it
raises
must
be
answered
if
the
systemic abuse
in
Haiti is
ever
to
end.
Roy
Thomas/Ottawa
FOREIGN
MINISTRIES IN
THE
EUROPEAN
UNION
Integrating
Diplomats
Edited
by Brian
Hocking
and David
Spence
New
York:
Palgrave
Macmillan,
2002,
33
6
pp,
us$75.00,
ISBN
1-4039-0359-x
During
the
last
20
or
30
years,
foreign
ministries
(FMs)
around
the
world
have
come
under
increased pressure,
as
the
twin
forces
of
glob-
alization
and
regionalization
have
diminished
their
traditional
role,
pushing
them
to
the
margins
of
the
modern
state.
Once
the
sole
guardian or
"gatekeeper"
of
a
nation's
foreign
policy,
these
formerly
august
institutions
are
now dismissed
as
hidebound
and
inflexible,
"locked
into
a
cycle
of
irreversible
decline." Increasingly,
it
seems,
other
government
bureaucracies
and
central
agencies,
non-govern-
mental
actors,
and
even
supranational
institutions
usurp
their
policy-
making
role
virtually
at
will.
And
in
no corner
of
the
world
is
this
sad
development
more
evident
than
in
Europe,
where
the
integrationist
impulses
of
the
European
Union
are
transforming
foreign
into
domes-
tic
policy
with
dizzying speed.
As
the
European project
takes its
next
step
and
the
EU
pursues
its
Common
Foreign
and
Security
Policy
(CFSP),
Brian
Hocking,
a
professor
of
international
relations
at
INTERNATIONAL
JOURNAL
Summer
2003
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