Chapter 9 Web links
A good place to start researching the EU’s external policy role is the website of the Paris-based Institute for Security Studies (www.iss.europa.eu), which formally became an autonomous European Union agency in 2002. Other specific areas of EU policy have their own, dedicated websites:
- External relations and foreign and security policy: www.europa.eu/pol/cfsp/index_en.htm
- Humanitarian aid: http://europa.eu/pol/hum/index_en.htm
- Justice/home affairs: www.europa.eu/pol/justice/index_en.htm
- Trade: http://europa.eu/pol/comm/index_en.htm
- Development: http://ec.europa.eu/europeaid/index_en.htm
The EEAS’ site (https://eeas.europa.eu) has general information about EU foreign and defence policy, but the websites of national foreign ministries often reveal more. On the EU’s relationship with the US, see http://www.euintheus.org and www.useu.be. Weblinks on the EU’s other important relationships include ones devoted to EU–Canadian relations (www.canada-europe.org) and the Union’s relationship with Latin America (http://aei.pitt.edu/view/subjects/D002022.html). To see how the how closely linked the EU’s trade and aid policies are see http://ec.europa.eu/trade/policy/countries-and-regions/development/aid-for-trade/. The European Council on Foreign Relations offers an annual assessment of European foreign policy in the form of a scorecard: http://www.ecfr.eu/scorecard/.
For a very interesting discussion on EU security and its crises, see: https://soundcloud.com/lsepodcasts/the-crisis-in-european. For some recent security updates, see the CER’s excellent podcast: https://www.cer.eu/media/cer-bulletin-podcast-transatlantic-relationship-brexit-and-financial-services-uk-eu-defence.