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Book Review: Beverly Crawford, Power and German Foreign Policy: Embedded Hegemony in Europe (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, 240pp., $85.00 hbk)

Europeans in identifying themselves as different from the American military colossus. She then engages the ongoing International Relations debate of the role of agency versus structure in creating ‘national’ identities. The author’s exploration of the vital role of European Union politicians in consciously using security and defence policy as a tool to build European identity presents an excellent argument for the importance of agency in International Relations. She also examines the institutional limitations of the European Security and Defence Policy which she believes further supports her argument that it cannot be anything other than a symbolic identity-building project. In the final chapter of the book, the impact of the European Security and Defence Policy on the European Union’s internal and external reputation is reviewed. Anderson illustrates that a small but significant increase in the reputation of the European Union has occurred since the formulation of the European Security and Defence Policy. However, her conclusion that the policy is a necessary nationand identity-building project that will help continue the success of European integration is overstated. While she rightly concludes that the biggest threat to Europe is the failure of further integration, she does not show how a small increase in the internal reputation of the European Union will help mitigate this threat. Overall, while some may find questionable Anderson’s assumption that new security threats are not the reason for the European Security and Defence Policy, she does present an engaging argument that illustrates the utility of empirical constructivist research. This interesting and provocative book is well-researched and written in an accessible manner. It is highly recommended for students of comparative politics, International Relations and European Union studies.