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12 J. Common Mkt. Stud. 1 (1973)

handle is hein.journals/jcmks12 and id is 1 raw text is: FROM EXTERNAL RELATIONS TO FOREIGN POLICY: AN INTRODUCTORY NOTE By STANLEY HENIG INSOFAR as the desire to change the bases of Europe's relations with the rest of the world was a motivating factor for the 'Europeans' in the 194os and sOS, external relations were always likely to be an important facet of Community activity. The nature and extent of these external relations offer one theoretical yardstick against which to gauge the success of the Community, whilst in practice its international activities have resulted not from any a priori doctrine but rather from outside pressure occasioned by approaches from numerous third countries feeling themselves threatened by, or wishing to join in, the evident economic advance and success of the six. Nonetheless it was evident long before 1970 that in power terms Europe was still at a disadvantage on the international scene so long as the Community consisted of only six member states with the United Kingdom in particular remaining outside. Whatever the economic motivations, the needs of foreign policy-for both the United Kingdom and the original six of the EEC-dictated the necessity of enlargement. As in other spheres the enlargement of the Community has two kinds of effects on foreign policies-impact and dynamic. The impact effects concern the immediate changes which enlargement brings about in the external and foreign relations of the Community as a whole, the original member states and the newcomers. Numerous agreements between the Community and non-member countries will have to be renegotiated, whilst some agreements made earlier by the newcomers may even have to be voided or replaced by Community texts. The declared intention of the Nine is to deal with renegotiation and the im- mediately consequent problems before the end of 1975. As in other sectors, however, it is the dynamic effects which are more interesting over the long term, even if they are much harder to assess. In a grow- ing number of areas the Community is an actor on the international stage. In terms of resources the new Community must be more potent than the old, but on the side of intentions there is still very much a tabula rasa. The object of this special issue of the Journal of Common Market Studies is to make a contribution to the growing debate about the

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