TY - BOOK AU - Toje,Asle TI - The European Union as a small power: after the post-Cold War T2 - Palgrave studies in European Union politics SN - 0230243967 U1 - 341.2422 PY - 2010/// CY - Basingstoke, New York PB - Palgrave Macmillan KW - Federación Europea KW - Seguridad nacional KW - Países de la Unión Europea KW - Política militar KW - Relaciones exteriores N1 - Incluye bibliografía (p. 222-243); Introduction and basic arguments -- 1. The anatomy of EU security -- 2. The European Union as a historical phenomenon -- 3. European defence : the state of the Union -- 4. The European security strategy revisited -- 5. Lessons from the field -- 6. A question of political Will -- 7. The making of a small power -- 8. The EU unde3r multipolarity -- Conclusion : the purpose of EU power N2 - The post-Cold War period is coming to an end. After a decade of foreign policy integration Europe faces multipolarity internally divided and externally weak. Toje argues that due to the lack of a workable decision-making mechanism the EU is destined to play the limited but distinct role of a small power in global politics ER -