International Relations of the European Union (Four-Volume Set) (Sage Library of International Relations) (1ST ed.)

Biographical Note:
Wyn Rees is a Professor of International Security at the University of Nottingham and a Visiting Professor at the College of Europe, Bruges. The focus of his research has been in security politics with a particular focus upon the European Union and transatlantic relations. His interests in security stretch from military issues, at one end of the spectrum, to ′soft security′ issues, such as organised crime, drug trafficking and terrorism.

Michael Smith is Professor of European Politics and Jean Monnet Chair in the Department of European and International Studies at Loughborough University, and co-director of the soon to be established Centre for the Study of International Governance at Loughborough. His principal areas of research are transatlantic relations, relations between the EU, the US and Japan, the making of EU external policies and the role of the EU in post-Cold War Europe, as well as more general issues of international political economy. Among his books are The United States and the European Community in a Transformed World (1993, with Stephen Woolcock); Beyond Foreign Economic Policy: the United States, the Single European Market and the Changing World Economy (1997, with Brian Hocking); Europe′s Experimental Union: Rethinking Integration (2000, with Brigid Laffan and Rory O′Donnell); The State of the European Union, Volume 5: Risks, Reforms, Resistance and Revival (2000, edited with Maria Green Cowles); Foreign Policy in a Transformed World (2002, with Mark Webber); International Relations and the European Union (2005, edited with Christopher Hill); The European Union′s Roles in International Politics: Concepts and Analysis (2006, edited with Ole Elgström). He has also co-edited a number of editions of two key International Relations texts, Perspectives on World Politics (3rd edition 2005) and Issues in World Politics (3rd edition 2005).