The foreign policy behaviour of the European Union towards the Latin American Southern Cone States (1980 - 2000) [Elektronische Ressource] : has it become more cooperative? ; the cases of foreign direct investment and agricultural trade / Andrea Ribeiro Hoffmann

Andrea Ribeiro Hoffmann The foreign policy behaviour of the European Union towards the Latin American Southern Cone States (1980-2000): has it become more cooperative? The cases of foreign direct investment and agricultural trade. Dissertation zur Erlangung des akademischen Grades Doktor der Sozialwissenschaften in der Fakultät für Sozial- und Verhaltenswissenschaften der Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen 2003 Contents Chapter 1 - Introduction ......................................................................................... 4 Chapter 2 – The Southern Cone States in the foreign policy of the European Union: a historical background............................................................................... 7 2.1) EU foreign policy towards Latin America....................................................... 7 2.2) The creation of the Southern Cone Common Market (Mercosur) .................. 16 2.3) The EU foreign policy towards Mercosur...................................................... 19 Chapter 3 - The dependent variable: the level of cooperation of EU Foreign policy behaviour towards the Southern Cone States............................................ 25 3.1) Foreign policy............................................................................................... 25 3.2) International actorness of the EU .......................................