European Foreign and Security Policy: States, Power, Institutions, and American HegemonyUniversity of Toronto Press, 2010 M05 8 - 256 pages The European Union's (EU) Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) stipulates that all member states must unanimously ratify policy proposals through their representatives on the EU Council. Intergovernmentalism, or the need for equal agreement from all member nations, is used by many political scientists and policy analysts to study how the EU achieves its CFSP. However, in European Foreign and Security Policy, Catherine Gegout modifies this theory, arguing instead for analyses based on what she terms 'constrained intergovernmentalism.' Gegout's theory of constrained intergovernmentalism allows for member states, in particular France, Germany, and the United Kingdom, to bargain with one another and to make rational decisions but also takes into account the constraints imposed by the United States, the European Commission, and the precedents set by past decisions. Three in-depth case studies of CFSP decision-making support her argument, as she examines the EU position on China's human rights record, EU sanctions against Serbia, and EU relations with NATO. |
Contents
PART ONECFSP Theory and Practice | |
A New Theoretical Approach | |
The Machinery of DecisionMaking | |
PART TWOCase Studies in CFSP The Mechanism in Action | |
Institutional Relations with NATO 1998 2008 | |
PART THREEThe Unexpected Actors in the CFSP System | |
Partial Bandwagoning | |
Modes of Intervention and Control in CFSP | |
Constrained Intergovernmentalism A More Complete Theorization of the CFSP System | |
Situating Constrained Intergovernmentalism in the Literature on European Foreign Policy | |
Notes | |
Bibliography | |
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