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New Approaches to EU Foreign Policy

Edited by Maciej Wilga, Ireneusz Pawel Karolewski

To Be Published June 30th 2013 by Routledge – 240 pages

Series: Routledge Advances in European Politics

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Description

The EU foreign policy had existed as the European Political Cooperation with only a limited political leverage and rather symbolic institutional underpinnings, but this has been rapidly changing characterised by a growing institutional apparatus and increasing responsibility and demand for action.

This book examines new approaches to the EU’s foreign policy that address the rapidly changing character of the European Union, presenting the newest theoretical perspectives and dealing with novel empirical developments. Rather than simply considering structural changes and changes in the agency of the EU, it aims to study the new complexity in the CFSP/EU foreign policy. The authors offer new empirical studies dealing with such aspects including power delegation to the Commission, EU diplomacy, parliamentarisation/constitutionalisation and committees’ involvement in foreign policy process.

Making important contributions to both theoretical and empirical debates, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of European politics, European foreign policy and European integration.

Contents

Part 1. Old and New Approaches to EU foreign Policy 1. Introduction: Why is There a Need for New Approaches to EU Foreign Policy? Ireneusz, Paweł Karolewski & Maciej Wilga 2. CFSP’s ‘Acquis Conceptuel’: Old and Recent Conceptual Developments in the CFSP Field of Study Maciej Wilga Part 2. Recent Concepts of and Perspectives on EU Foreign Policy 3. Normative Power, Structural Power and the European Union: The Concept of a Venutian Foreign Policy Tuomas Forsberg 4. Approaches to Delegation in EU Foreign Policy: the Case of the Commission Hylke Dijkstra 5. Committee Approach to the CFSP: National Officials in the Groups and Parties of the CFSP/ESDP: Characteristics, Profiles and Working Habits Nicola Chelotti 6. Epistemic Communities and the Transnational Network Approach to EU Diplomacy and Security Policy Mai’a K. Cross Davis 7. Constitutionalisation of EU Foreign Policy Ireneusz Paweł Karolewski 8. Parliamentarisation Approach: Parliamentary Control in the CFSP Kolja Raube Part 3. Recent Institutional Choices and Challenges to EU’s Foreign Policy 9. Explaining the Institutional Choices: The EU’s ‘External Action’ according to the Lisbon Treaty Finn Laursen 10. Solving the Puzzle of EU Eastern Enlargement: Rhetorical Action in Diffuse Decision Contexts Thomas Mehlhausen 11. Post-Modern Diplomacy: Can EU Foreign Policy Make a Difference in World Politics? Dieter Mahncke 12. External Democracy Promotion as a Means of EU Foreign Policy Irene Hahn 13. Turkey and the European Union: Partners in Foreign Policy Cooperation in the South Caucasus Meltem Müftüler-Baç & Aybars Görgülü Part 4. Conclusions 14. Conclusions: What Value Added of the Recent Approaches to EU Foreign Policy? Maciej Wilga & Ireneusz Paweł Karolewski

Author Bio

Maciej Wilga is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Political Science of the University of Potsdam, Germany.

Ireneusz Pawel Karolewski is Associate Professor of Political Science at the Willy Brandt Centre for German and European Studies of the University of Breslau (Wroclaw, Poland) and Adjunct Professor for political science at the University of Potsdam, Germany.

Name: New Approaches to EU Foreign Policy (Hardback) – Routledge 
Description: Edited by Maciej Wilga, Ireneusz Pawel Karolewski. The EU foreign policy had existed as the European Political Cooperation with only a limited political leverage and rather symbolic institutional underpinnings, but this has been rapidly changing characterised by a growing institutional apparatus and...
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