Front Cover -- Copyright Information -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Part I: The European Union's Foreign Policy Tools -- European Union Foreign Policy: A Historical Overview -- The New EU Foreign Policy under the Treaty of Lisbon -- European Security and Defense Policy: From Taboo to a Spearhead of EU Foreign Policy? -- Justice and Home Affairs as a New Tool of European Foreign Policy -- Competition Policy as a Tool of EU Foreign Policy: Multilateralism, Bilateralism, and Soft Convergence -- The European Neighborhood Policy: Assessing the EU's Policy toward the Region -- Part II: The European Union and Its Neighbors -- The European Union and Russia: Past, Present, and Future of a Difficult Relationship -- EU Policy toward Ukraine and Belarus: Diverging Paths? -- The Balkans and the European Union -- EU Enlargement: The Challenge and Promise of Turkey -- The EU and the Mediterranean Nonmember States -- The EU and the Middle East -- Is Sarkozy's Union for the Mediterranean Going to Work? -- Part III: Relations between the EU and Other Countries -- U.S.-EU Relations: Putting the Bush Years in Perspective -- Economics and Security: A Reversed Alliance -- Relations between the EU and Latin America and the Caribbean: Competition or Cooperation with the United States? -- EU-Canada Relations: A Case of Mutual Neglect? -- The EU in Africa: Increasing Coherence, Decreasing Partnership -- Regionalism, Interregionalism, and Bilateralism: The EU and the Asia-Pacific -- The EU-China Relationship: From Cooperation to Strategic Partnership -- Part IV: Promoting Values and Models Abroad -- EU Integration and Other Integration Models -- Human Rights, Peace, and Democracy: Is "Model Power Europe" a Contradiction in Terms? -- U.S. and EU Strategies for Promoting Democracy -- Perceptions of EU Foreign Policy outside Europe -- Part V: Conclusion.

EU Foreign Policy: Myth or Reality? -- Contributors -- Index -- Back Cover.