The European External Action Service and National Foreign Ministries Convergence or Divergence?

Introduction

Rosa Balfour, Caterina Carta and Kristi Raik

Part I: The EEAS and National Diplomacies as Part of Global and Eruopean Structures

1. Europe's Changing Place in the World and Challenes to European Diplomacy

Richard Whitman

2. Change and Continuity: A Decade of Evolution of EU Foreign Policy and the Creation of the European External Action Service

Rosa Balfour

3. At the Centre of Coordination: Staff, Resources and Procedures in the European External Action Service and in the Delegations

Christian Lequesne

4. Inside the European External Action Service's Institutional Sinews: An Institutional and Organizational Analysis

Caterina Carta and Simon Duke

Part II: National Diplomacies Shaping and Being Shaped by the EEAS

5. 'Our Man in Brussels'. The UK and the EEAS: Ambivalence and Influence

Daniel Fiott

6. France: Between National Grandeur and the European Commitment

Fabien Terpan

7. Germany: The Instinctive Integrationist Occassionally Going Intergovernmental

Cornelius Adebahr

8. Spain and Italy: The 'Europeanization' Strategies of Two Middle Powers

Andrea Frontini, Salvador Llaudes, Ignacio Molina and Alicia Sorroza

9. Portugal and the Netherlands: Punching Above Their Weight?

Laura C. Ferreira-Pereira, Alena Vysotskaya G. Vieira and Louise van Schaik

10. Cases of Cautious Optimism: Sweden, Poland and the EEAS

Grzegorz Gromadzki, Jakob Lewander, Sara Norrevik and Mark Rhinard

11. Greece and Slovenia: National Diplomacies with Limited Means

Ruby Gropas, Sabina Kajnč Lange and George Tzogopoulos

12. The Czech Republic, Estonia and Finland: European Vocation Re-Confirmed?

Vit Beneš and Kristi Raik

Conclusions: Adaptation to the EU or to the Changing Global Context?

Rosa Balfour, Caterina Carta and Kristi Raik

Biography

Rosa Balfour is Head of the Europe in the World Programme at the European Policy Centre (EPC) in Brussels. Prior to joining the EPC in 2007, she was a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Studies in International Politics (CeSPI) in Rome. She holds an MA in History from Cambridge University, and an MSc in European Studies and a PhD in International Relations, both from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Caterina Carta, is lecturer at Vesalius College and associate researcher at the Institute of European Studies (IES) at the ULB. She holds a PhD in Comparative and European Politics from the University of Siena.

Kristi Raik is Senior Research Fellow at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA) and Adjunct Professor at the University of Turku. Prior to joining FIIA in 2011, she served inter alia as an official at the Directorate-General for External and Politico-Military Affairs in the General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union and as a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for European Policy Studies. She holds both a Masters and a PhD in Social Sciences from the University of Turku.

"This is a wide-ranging and stimulating review of the European External Action Service and of the impact it is having on the national diplomacies of EU Member States. A robust framework based on ideas of Europeanisation and adaptation and a series of sharply focused essays by experts make this essential reading for researchers and teachers in this area."

Michael Smith, Loughborough University, UK

"Provides us with a fine-grained family picture of European diplomacy at a crucial moment in time when the EEAS and national diplomatic networks are aiming for a new balance after rocky early beginnings. An excellent source of important information for anybody interested in European foreign policy."

Federica Bicchi, London School of Economics, UK

"The EEAS and National Foreign Ministries is an important contribution to an under-studied topic. The methodology applied in order to look at the positions of the Member States (semi-structured elite interviews and process-tracing) permits to develop a compelling argument and confirms the expectations of European experts. ... a complete work and very accessible despite the complexity of foreign-policy making in the EU."

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