Abstract
The book titled European Union Foreign Policy in a Changing World by Karen E. Smith offers an insightful discourse on the changing contours of Europe’s foreign policy. Divided into eight comprehensive chapters, Smithdiscusses the conceptual underpinnings ofthe European Union’s foreign policy, the Union’s evolution as an influential political actor, the development of the EU’s foreign policy instrumentsto cover more diverse and recent issues such as human rights, democracy and good governance, conflict resolution and the fight against international crime. This lends a template to the EU’sforeign policy.Thewar in Afghanistan which began in 2001and the war inIraq (2003-2011)left the US with plunging levels of self esteem. These testing times provided theEU with the opportunity to emergeas an influential global actor.