1st Edition

The Domestic Sources of European Foreign Policy Defence and Enlargement

By Omar Serrano Copyright 2013
200 Pages
by Routledge

200 Pages
by Routledge

This timely study considers the challenges of developing a foreign policy for a union of 27 states while taking national political processes into account. Serrano analyses the relevance of domestic political processes for the EU's common policies and examines the democratic deficit in the EU foreign policy, thereby highlighting what is unique about it and reflecting on its possible evolution. As... Read more
Acknowledgements, Abstract, Preface, 1 Introduction, 2 Theorizing European Foreign Policy, 3 Security and Defence Policies, 4 Enlargement, 5 Conclusions, Appendices, 10 Unemployment, Notes, Bibliography, Index

Biography

Omar Serrano is senior researcher and lecturer at the University of Lucerne, Switzerland. He holds a PhD in International Relations/Political Science from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies. He is author of Promoting democracy as a security goal: the inward/outward paradox of the EU’s foreign policy in: Brauch, H.G. et al (Eds.): Coping with Global Environmental Change, Disasters and Security – Threats, Challenges, Vulnerabilities and Risks. Hexagon Series on Human and Environmental Security and Peace, vol. 5 (Berlin – Heidelberg – New York: Springer-Verlag, 2011).