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The EU has developed its global role in recent years. This has taken place by developing procedures for foreign policy and in the deployment of civilian and military missions internationally. However, the EU suffers from weaknesses that limit its ability to exercise significant global influence and that are apparent in the EU's relationship with the rising powers. The article analyses these limitations which encompass the EU's 'hardware' — its capacity to deploy fully the capabilities of all its constituent Member States – and failings in its 'software' — incoherence and inconsistency in the definition and application of its ideas guiding the EU's global role.

The EU has developed its global role in recent years. This has taken place by developing procedures for foreign policy and in the deployment of civilian and military missions internationally. However, the EU suffers from weaknesses that limit its ability to exercise significant global influence and that are apparent in the EU's relationship with the rising powers. The article analyses these limitations which encompass the EU's 'hardware' - its capacity to deploy fully the capabilities of all its constituent Member States - and failings in its 'software' - incoherence and inconsistency in the definition and application of its ideas guiding the EU's global role. Adapted from the source document.

Whitman reviews Allies At War: America, Europe, and the Crisis over Iraq by Philip H. Gordon and Jeremy Shapiro.

The enlargement of the European Union on May 1 concludes a process that began over a decade ago. Although the increase in membership from fifteen to twenty-five will not be the final expansion, the arrival of so many new recruits at any one time in future is highly unlikely. This is not to underestimate the challenges that further enlargement will present -- the decision on opening negotiations with Turkey will dominate discussion toward the end of the year -- but future growth will follow a tested & refined accession process. So what will be the new big idea? It could just be enlargement. Adapted from the source document.