KAREN E. SMITH

"The Making of EU Foreign Policy" argues that there has been a common European Union (EU) foreign policy towards six countries of Eastern Europe--Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia--and analyses why the EU has agreed to the policy. The objective of the EU's policy is to support the transformation of Eastern Europe and thus ensure security and stability. The most important instrument that the EU has used to reach this objective has been the prospect of enlargement.

''Karen Smith's extremely useful introduction to EU foriegn policy will appeal to a wide audience, from students of security studies to European integration. [T]his scholarly study will surely continue to be referred to in the years ahead.' European Foreign Affairs Review