Making EU Foreign Policy: National Preferences, European Norms and Common Policies

248 Pages·2011·0.779 MB·English

by  Daniel C. Thomas (eds.)

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Making EU Foreign Policy
National Preferences, European Norms
and Common Policies
Edited By
Daniel C. Thomas
School of Politics and International Relations and Dublin European Institute,
University College Dublin, Ireland
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Making EU foreign policy : national preferences, European norms and
common policies / [edited by] Daniel C. Thomas.
p. cm.
Includes index.
1. European Union countries–Foreign relations. 2. European Union
countries–Foreign relations–Case studies. I. Thomas, Daniel C.
(Daniel Charles) II. Title.
JZ1570.8.M354 2011
341.242′2–dc22 2011004876
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Contents
List of Tables vii
Acknowledgements viii
Notes on the Contributors x
Introduction 1
1 The Challenge of EU Foreign Policy 3
Daniel C. Thomas
2 Explaining EU Foreign Policy: Normative 10
Institutionalism and Alternative Approaches
Daniel C. Thomas
Case Studies 29
3 EU Policy on Ukraine During and Since the Orange 31
Revolution: ‘A door neither closed nor open’
Richard Youngs
4 EU Policy on the International Criminal Court: 50
Institutional Contexts and Policy Compromises
Daniel C. Thomas
5 EU Policy on the Iraq War and its Aftermath: 70
The Breakdown and Revival of Consensus-based
Decision-making
Jeffrey Lewis
6 EU Decision-making in CSDP: Consensus Building on 92
Operation Artemis
Simon Duke
7 EU Membership Negotiations with Turkey: 111
Entrapped Again
Frank Schimmelfennig
8 EU Policy on Economic Partnership Agreements: 131
Trade… and Aid?
Ole Elgström
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vi Contents
9 EU Policy on Global Climate Change: The Negotiation 150
of Burden-Sharing
John Vogler
Conclusions 175
10 Normative Institutionalism and EU Foreign Policy 177
in Comparative Perspective
Frank Schimmelfennig and Daniel C. Thomas
11 Norms and All That: Progress in Research on EU 192
Foreign Policy
Thomas Risse
12 Interests, Power and the EU’s Role in International 203
Security: A Sceptical Response to Normative
Institutionalism
Anand Menon
13 Norms, Institutions and EU Foreign Policy: 217
Advancing the Research Programme
Michael E. Smith
Index 234
List of Tables
7.1 Member state preferences on Turkish accession 115
7.2 Freedom House Index for selected EU membership 120
applicants
9.1 EU member state economies and emissions 154
9.2 EU burden sharing 1997–98 159
9.3 ETS emissions and caps 165
10.1 Negotiation characteristics and normative 178
institutionalism
10.2 Conditions of entrapment and cooperative bargaining 181
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Acknowledgements
This book is the result of a multi-year transnational collaborative research
project that depended at every stage on support from individuals whose
names do not appear in the Table of Contents. It all began with the
Council on Foreign Relations’ decision to award me an International Affairs
Fellowship – a unique and valuable programme that enables scholars of
international relations to set teaching aside for a year and gain hands-
on experience in a policy-making environment. I am grateful to the Coun-
cil and especially to Elise Carlson Lewis for making this possible. In my
case, the fellowship supported a sabbatical year working in Brussels at
the European Commission’s Directorate General for External Relations,
where Daniela Napoli courageously agreed to integrate an academic inter-
loper into her team of dedicated professionals. This experience gave me
invaluable insights into the dynamics of EU foreign policy-making that
I quickly recognized were at odds with the conventional wisdom on how
the EU overcomes differences in the policy preferences of its member states.
Once back in academia, my new colleague Alberta Sbragia encouraged me
to convert this experience into the scholarly project that eventually became
this book. I am deeply grateful to Daniela and Alberta for their critical
support.
A stellar team of authors and discussants from across Europe and
North America came together for conferences hosted in 2007 by the
University of Pittsburgh’s European Union Centre of Excellence and in
2008 by University College Dublin’s College of Human Sciences and
Dublin European Institute. Many thanks to Alberta Sbragia, Brigid
Laffan, and Attracta Ingram for the grants that made these conferences
possible, and to Andreas Dür, Reinhard Heinisch , Derek Hutcheson,
David Long, Diana Panke, Eric Remacle, Tobias Theiler, and Ben Tonra
for their helpful feedback on draft papers at the two conferences.
Michael Cox then accepted the papers for publication as a special issue
of International Politics – one of the few journals in our field that con-
sistently makes space for collaborative projects of this sort. Finally,
Knud Erik Jørgensen and Audie Klotz endorsed a revised version of the
special issue for inclusion in their series Palgrave Studies in Inter-
national Relations, and three noted colleagues agreed to provide crit-
ical commentaries for an extended conclusion to the collection.
Palgrave editor Alexandra Webster, editorial assistant Liz Blackmore,
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Acknowledgements ix
and production editor Shirley Tan made the final steps to publication a
pleasure.
To all these individuals, I owe a huge debt of gratitude.
Daniel C. Thomas
Dublin