European Security After Iraq

Norrie MacQueen is Senior Lecturer in Politics (International Relations) at the University of Dundee in Scotland. He is associate editor of Perspectives on European Politics and Society (also published by Brill). His previous books have explored European decolonization in Africa and United Nations peacekeeping. His latest book, Peacekeeping and the International System, is published (by Routledge) in 2006.Trine Flockhart is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at Griffith University, Australia. Her recent work, exploring processes of state socialization through norms transfer, appeared in: International Relations (2004); Journal of Common Market Studies (2005); European Journal of International Relations (2006). Her latest book Socializing Democratic Norms (Palgrave, 2005) explores the socialization of democratic norms in Central and Eastern Europe. She is currently working on a social constructivist re-conceptualization of Europeanization.

"European Security after Iraq"deals with the key questions about the effect of the Iraq war, from the invasion of 2003 onwards, on relations within the European region and between Europe and the wider world. It is concerned with both immediate impacts and longer term trends in intra-European and transatlantic relations. Formerly published as a special issue of 'Perspectives on European Politics and Society', Volume 5, No. 3, 2004.