Strategy-Making in the EU: From Foreign and Security Policy to External Action (The European Union in International Affairs)

Morillas, Pol

ISBN 10: 3319986260 / ISBN 13: 9783319986265

Published by Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Strategy-Making in the EU: From Foreign and Security Policy to External Action (The European Union in International Affairs)
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3319986260
• ISBN 13: 9783319986265
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

This book provides a detailed analysis of the policy-making processes of EU strategies in foreign and security policy and external action. It uses the European Security Strategy and the EU Global Strategy to assess their policy-making dynamics both before and after the Lisbon Treaty. Inter-institutional relations in strategy-making are put into the context of current debates in European integration, questioning the assumption that the EU is a body increasingly ruled by intergovernmentalism - as reflected by the new intergovernmentalism literature. The book also provides a categorisation of EU strategies and considers them as policy-inspiration documents, acting as frameworks for policy-making. This reading of strategies lies behind the analysis of the policy-making processes of the ESS and the EUGS, unpacked into four phases: agenda-setting, policy formulation, policy output and implementation. By looking at the shifting policy-making dynamics from foreign and security policy to external action, the author sheds light on the current shape of EU integration.

About the Author

Pol Morillas is Director of CIDOB, the Barcelona Centre for International Affairs. He is also Associate Lecturer at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain.