KAREN E. SMITH

''''Karen Smith''s extremely useful introduction to EU foriegn policy will appeal to a wide audience, from students of security studies to European integration. [T]his scholarly study will surely continue to be referred to in the years ahead.'' European Foreign Affairs Review

The aim of this book is to describe the underlying principles of algebraic geometry, some of its important developments in the twentieth century, and some of the problems that occupy its practitioners today. It is intended for the working or the aspiring mathematician who is unfamiliar with algebraic geometry but wishes to gain an appreciation of its foundations and its goals with a minimum of prerequisites. Few algebraic prerequisites are presumed beyond a basic course in linear algebra.

"The Making of EU Foreign Policy" argues that there has been a common European Union (EU) foreign policy towards six countries of Eastern Europe--Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia--and analyses why the EU has agreed to the policy. The objective of the EU''s policy is to support the transformation of Eastern Europe and thus ensure security and stability. The most important instrument that the EU has used to reach this objective has been the prospect of enlargement.