EU foreign policy: no major breakthrough despite multiple crises
| Autor: | Patrick Müller |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
| Předmět: |
021110 strategic
defence & security studies Window of opportunity Sociology and Political Science Member states 05 social sciences 0211 other engineering and technologies 02 engineering and technology Technocracy International economics Eu countries 0506 political science Cost savings Foreign policy Political Science and International Relations 050602 political science & public administration Economics Scale effects Marginal use Economic system |
| Zdroj: | Journal of European Integration. 38:359-374 |
| ISSN: | 1477-2280 0703-6337 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/07036337.2016.1140157 |
| Popis: | The financial crises and profound external relations challenges provide a window of opportunity to upgrade EU foreign policy. Yet, whilst multiple crises faced by the EU today play a prominent role in the Union’s foreign policy discourse, escape from ‘EU decision traps’ at the policy level has often not been achieved. Changes were incremental in nature, were largely pre-structured by the 2009 Lisbon agenda, and resulted only in the marginal use of scale effects, synergies, and cost savings at the EU level. Rather than engaging in bold steps towards greater integration of EU foreign policy, EU countries have favoured technocratic reforms, closer cooperation among like-minded member states, reliance on NATO or national action. Though the EU has recently launched high profile review-processes of its foreign policy, it remains to be seen whether this will translate into tangible results. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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