Abstract
European Union Foreign Policy in a Changing World provides a clear introduction to the complexities of the contemporary European Union foreign policy, and offers a comprehensive and a distinctive perspective on the nature of the European Union's international identity. Karen E.Smith is a Senior lecturer in International Relations at the London School of Economics and her research interests focus on EU foreign policy, and principally the role of normative issues in EU external strategy. Her book offers a fresh approach to the complicated framework of the EU foreign policies. Now a days, it is a common view to consider the EU as an ineffective and an incomplete actor whose foreign policy is inconsequential and weak, notably compared to the US. Its absence in hot spots in Rwanda, Kosovo or Bosnia as well as its member states‘ division over the conflict in Iraq only emphasized this picture.
