Europe's Foreign and Security Policy: The Institutionalization of Cooperation (Themes in European Governance)

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Series-title......Page 5
Title......Page 7
Copyright......Page 8
Dedication......Page 9
Contents......Page 11
Tables......Page 13
Acknowledgments......Page 14
Abbreviations......Page 16
Introduction: foreign and security policy in the European Union......Page 19
1 The existence, endurance, and expansion of EU foreign policy......Page 21
2 EU foreign policy and the external world......Page 22
3 EU foreign policy and European integration......Page 23
4 The mechanisms and resources of European foreign policy......Page 25
5 EU foreign policy and domestic politics......Page 26
An institutional approach to European foreign policy......Page 27
A note on terminology and methodology......Page 30
Part I Institutions and foreign policy cooperation: the theoretical and empirical terrain......Page 33
1 The institutionalization of cooperation: an analytical framework......Page 35
Why an institutional approach to EU foreign policy cooperation?......Page 36
Institutional change and cooperation: competing paradigms......Page 41
Toward a theory of institutionalization......Page 43
Processes of institutionalization......Page 50
Summary......Page 53
2 Institutions and European foreign policy cooperation: the empirical link......Page 55
Defining institutionalization......Page 56
Stages of institutionalization......Page 58
Measuring EU foreign policy cooperation......Page 67
Quantitative indicators of cooperation......Page 68
Qualitative indicators of cooperation......Page 72
Institutionalization, cooperation, and domestic politics......Page 75
Summary......Page 78
Part II The institutionalization of cooperation......Page 79
3 Origins: intergovernmentalism and European Political Cooperation......Page 81
EPC: the origins......Page 83
The institutional structure of EPC......Page 89
Procedural changes......Page 95
Substantive EPC outcomes......Page 102
4 Information-sharing and the transgovernmental EPC network......Page 108
The context of change......Page 111
The institutional mechanisms......Page 113
The European Council and EPC......Page 116
Procedural changes......Page 118
Substantive EPC outcomes......Page 126
5 Norms, rules, and laws in European foreign policy......Page 135
Procedural norms of European foreign policy......Page 138
The emergence and effects of procedural EPC norms......Page 139
The London Report on EPC......Page 143
EPC norms and EC laws......Page 148
EPC norms and the European Court of Justice......Page 150
Substantiv European foreign policy norms......Page 152
The emergence and effects of substantive EPC norms......Page 153
EPC and European security......Page 159
6 Organizations and European foreign policy......Page 163
Organizations and EPC: from the London Report to the Single European Act......Page 166
EPC and the Single European Act......Page 167
The Commission and European foreign policy......Page 172
The evolution of Commission involvement in EPC......Page 173
Structure and resources......Page 176
The Commission’s influence in EPC......Page 178
Origins, structure, resources......Page 184
The performance of the EPC Secretariat......Page 186
Resources and influence of the EP......Page 188
7 Toward governance: the Common Foreign and Security Policy......Page 194
The Treaty on European Union......Page 195
The Common Foreign and Security Policy......Page 198
The CFSP as a rational policy process......Page 199
Binding legal norms in the CFSP......Page 202
Authoritative CFSP decision-making rules......Page 203
Enhanced autonomy of EC organizations......Page 204
Procedural performance: the CFSP policy process......Page 208
Substantive performance: CFSP common positions and joint actions......Page 212
The CFSP, security, and the WEU......Page 219
Security-related actions......Page 220
The CFSP and the WEU......Page 222
Part III Residual institutional issues......Page 225
8 Unfinished business: coherence and the EU’s global ambitions......Page 227
The institutionalization of coherence......Page 228
Coherence and institutional performance......Page 232
Informal post-Maastricht institutional reforms......Page 238
Formal institutional reforms: from Amsterdam to Nice......Page 244
CFSP reforms under Amsterdam......Page 245
The CFSP and ESDP after Nice......Page 251
Conclusion: beyond the CFSP: institutions, defense, and the European identity......Page 257
Institutionalization and cooperation revisited......Page 258
1 The existence, endurance and expansion of European foreign policy......Page 263
2 EU foreign policy and the external world......Page 265
3 EU foreign policy and European integration......Page 267
4 The mechanisms and resources of European foreign policy......Page 268
5 EU foreign policy and domestic politics......Page 270
Beyond institutions and cooperation: toward a European identity?......Page 271
Europe’s constitutional future and the CFSP/EDSP......Page 276
EUROPEAN COMMUNITY SOURCES (ONLY MAJOR PUBLICATIONS LISTED)......Page 282
BOOKS AND ARTICLES......Page 284
Index......Page 302