Making EU Foreign Policy

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Introduction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. The Challenge of EU Foreign Policy

      • Daniel C. Thomas

      Pages 3-7

   3. Explaining EU Foreign Policy: Normative Institutionalism and Alternative Approaches

      • Daniel C. Thomas

      Pages 10-28

3. Case Studies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 29-29

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   2. EU Policy on Ukraine During and Since the Orange Revolution: ‘A door neither closed nor open’

      • Richard Youngs

      Pages 31-49

   3. EU Policy on the International Criminal Court: Institutional Contexts and Policy Compromises

      • Daniel C. Thomas

      Pages 50-69

   4. EU Policy on the Iraq War and its Aftermath: The Breakdown and Revival of Consensus-based Decision-making

      • Jeffrey Lewis

      Pages 70-91

   5. EU Decision-making in CSDP: Consensus Building on Operation Artemis

      • Simon Duke

      Pages 92-110

   6. EU Membership Negotiations with Turkey: Entrapped Again

      • Frank Schimmelfennig

      Pages 111-130

   7. EU Policy on Economic Partnership Agreements: Trade… and Aid?

      • Ole Elgström

      Pages 131-149

   8. EU Policy on Global Climate Change: The Negotiation of Burden-Sharing

      • John Vogler

      Pages 150-173

4. Conclusions

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 175-175

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   2. Normative Institutionalism and EU Foreign Policy in Comparative Perspective

      • Frank Schimmelfennig, Daniel C. Thomas

      Pages 177-191

   3. Norms and All That: Progress in Research on EU Foreign Policy

      • Thomas Risse

      Pages 192-202

   4. Interests, Power and the EU’s Role in International Security: A Sceptical Response to Normative Institutionalism

      • Anand Menon

      Pages 203-216

   5. Norms, Institutions and EU Foreign Policy: Advancing the Research Programme

      • Michael E. Smith

      Pages 217-233

5. Back Matter

   Pages 234-240

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A novel explanation of how EU member states overcome their divergent preferences to reach agreement on common foreign policies, with fourteen in-depth case studies covering diplomatic and security issues, enlargement, trade, development and environmental protection.

• decision-making
• environmental protection
• Europe
• European Union (EU)
• foreign policy
• Institution
• Policy
• revolution
• european union politics

• School of Politics and International Relations and Dublin European Institute, University College Dublin, Ireland

  Daniel C. Thomas

SIMON DUKE Professor at the European Institute for Public Administration, the Netherlands OLE ELGSTRÖM Professor of Political Science at Lund University, Sweden JEFFREY LEWIS Associate Professor of Political Science at Cleveland State University, USA ANAND MENON Professor of West European Politics at the University of Birmingham, UK THOMAS RISSE Professor of International Politics at the Free University of Berlin and co-director of the Research College 'The Transformative Power of Europe,'Germany FRANK SCHIMMELFENNIG Professor of European Politics at ETH Zurich, Center for Comparative and International Studies, Switzerland MICHAEL E. SMITH Professor of International Relations at the University of Aberdeen, UK DANIEL C. THOMAS Associate Professor in the School of Politics and International Relations and Director of the Dublin European Institute at University College Dublin, Ireland JOHN VOGLER Professor of International Relations at Keele University and a member of the ESRC Centre forClimate Economics and Policy, UK RICHARD YOUNGS Associate Professor at the University of Warwick, UK, and Director of FRIDE in Madrid, Spain.

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