Books reviewed: J. Zielonka, Explaining Euro-Paralysis: Why Europe is Unable to Act in International Politics J. Zielonka, Paradoxes of European Foreign Policy L-E. Cederman, Constructing Europe's Identity: The External Dimension M. Maresceau and E. Lannon, The EU's Enlargement and Mediterranean...

Twenty years ago, in the pages of the, Journal of Common Market Studies, Hedley Bull launched a searing critique of the European Community's "civilian power" in international affairs. Since that time the increasing role of the European Union (EU) in areas of security and defence policy has led...