The europeanization of national foreign policies towards Latin America / edited by Lorena Ruano
Series: Routledge Advances in European Politics ; 86 | Routledge Advances in European Politics ; ; 86Publication details: Abingdon : Routledge , 2014Description: XIX, 264 p. : gráf. ; 24 cmISBN:- 978-1-138-83318-0
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Who shapes the European Union's policy towards Latin America? How has this EU policy modified individual member states' relations with the region? This book provides a comparative account of seven member states' bilateral links with Latin America since 1945, in the context of their EU membership and based on the concept of 'Europeanization'. It illustrates how and why the main architects of this EU policy have been Spain and Germany. In contrast, Poland, Sweden and Ireland, which had little previous interaction with Latin America, have developed their current relations with that region virtually as a result of their EU membership. The United Kingdom and France lie in the middle: they have been influential in certain policy-areas and key periods in history, while they have adapted to what is done at the EU level in others