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This cutting-edge book explores the practices and socialization of
the everyday foreign policy making in the European Union (EU),
focusing on the individuals who shape and implement the Common
Foreign and Security Policy despite a growing dissension among
member states. The authors provide theoretically informed analyses
based on up-to-date empirical material from the Political and
Security Committee, Council working groups, the European External
Action Service, EU delegations, military and civilian missions and
operations and EU member state embassies. They illustrate the ways
in which European foreign policy is shaped through the daily work
of diplomats, exploring the communities of practice that are formed
in the process of policy-making in the EU. Combining socialization
and practice approaches, the book offers an innovative take on the
motivations behind integration at a time of European discord.
Providing a unique inside account of diplomatic practices and the
coordination of EU foreign policy, this insightful book is crucial
reading for students of political science and international
relations at all levels seeking to better understand the minutiae
of formulating and coordinating EU foreign and security policy. Its
empirical analyses will also benefit scholars and researchers
interested in European integration and socialization in
international organizations, as well as practitioners, such as
diplomats and European civil servants.
The electoral success of secessionist parties in Catalonia and
Scotland over the last decade, together with Brexit and the support
for Eurosceptic parties in many EU member states, have prompted a
rethink of many taken-for-granted notions about politics in Spain,
the UK and the EU. Secessionist parties in Catalonia and Scotland
often combine calls for independence with support for the EU, but
independence for Catalonia might entail the loss of EU membership.
In the UK, Scotland voted for the UK to remain in the EU, yet it
was forced to leave the Union along with the rest of the country:
what effect has Brexit had on Scottish independence claims? Through
comparing Catalonia and Scotland, this short volume aims to
contribute to debates on, and advance knowledge of, visions of
independence and integration, how they interrelate in Europe's
emergent political order, and what they entail for European
integration and democracy in the EU.
This book aims to show practice approaches at work in the fields of
European diplomacy and security broadly conceived. It sets out to
provide readers with a hands-on sense of where research on social
practices and European diplomacy, security and foreign policy
currently stands. The book reviews how practice approaches have
evolved in International Relations (IR) and brings together an
unique set of contributions which highlights how insights from
practice approaches can be applied to advance research on a number
of key issues in these fields. While the debate about practices in
IR goes beyond the case of diplomacy, the latter has become a
showcase for the former and this book continues the debate on
practices and diplomacy by zooming in on the European Union.
Examples of issues covered include the evolution of EU-NATO
relations seen from the perspective of communities of practice,
burden sharing as an anchoring practice for European states'
involvement in crisis management operations, the practical
knowledge shaping the EU's responses to the Arab Uprisings, agency
as accomplished in and through EU counter-piracy practices and the
political resistance to Israeli occupation and the non-official
recognition of Palestine performed by EU diplomats. Thus, by
focusing on specific practices and analytical mechanisms that
contribute to understand the transformations of European diplomacy,
security and foreign policy, this book provides essential readings
to anyone interested in innovative ways to grasp the contemporary
challenges that face the EU and its member states. The chapters
originally published as a special issue of European Security.
This book explores how the European Union responds to the ongoing
challenges to the liberal international order. These challenges
arise both within the EU itself and beyond its borders, and put
into question the values of free trade and liberal democracy. The
book's interdisciplinary approach brings together scholars from
economics, law, and political science to provide a comprehensive
analysis of how shifts in the international order affect the global
position of the EU in dimensions such as foreign and security
policy, trade, migration, populism, rule of law, and climate
change. All chapters include policy recommendations which make the
book particularly useful for decision makers and policy advisors,
besides researchers and students, as well as for anyone interested
in the future of the EU.
This book contributes to the ongoing debate in IR on the role of
security communities and formulates a new mechanism-based
analytical framework. It argues that the question we need to ask is
how security communities work at a time when armed conflicts among
states have become significantly less frequent compared to other
non-military threats and trans-boundary risks (e.g. terrorism and
the adverse effects of climate change). Drawing upon recent
advances in practice theory, the book suggests that the emergence
and spread of cooperative security practices, ranging from
multilateral diplomacy to crisis management, are as important for
understanding how security communities work as more traditional
confidence-building measures. Using the EU, Spain and Morocco as an
in-depth case study, this volume reveals that through the
institutionalization of multilateral venues, the EU has provided
cooperative frameworks that otherwise would not have been
available, and that the de-territorialized notion of security
threats has created a new rationale for practical cooperation
between Spanish and Moroccan diplomats, armed forces and civilian
authorities. Within the broader context, this book provides a
mechanism-based framework for studying regional organizations as
security community-building institutions, and by utilizing that
framework it shows how practice theory can be applied in empirical
research to generate novel and thought-provoking results of
relevance for the broader field of IR. This book will be of much
interest to students of multilateral diplomacy, European Politics,
foreign policy, security studies and IR in general.
Reassesses the democratic quality of European integration Advances
the understanding of what twenty-first century democracy in Europe
is and what it can be Presents new perspectives on under-explored
dilemmas related to specific aspects of democracy in the context of
European integration and against the background of political shifts
in Europe in recent decades Provides an alternative to 'grand
theory' approaches to EU democracy and scholarly debates on the
EU's 'democratic deficit' Includes chapters by leading scholars in
the field, that supply new perspectives on democratic dilemmas from
the point of view of in-depth engagements with key aspects of
European democracy Bringing together leading and emerging scholars
on European politics, this collection explores how dilemmas
associated with key democratic concepts can be understood in
relation to the EU. The book renews our understanding of EU
democracy in ways that are more attentive to the multiple fault
lines and cleavages that structure this political order. It focuses
on a set of democratic dilemmas inherent to EU democracy, including
representation, deliberation, sovereignty, citizenship, democratic
contestation and market, to provide discussions on the specific
tensions and trade-offs associated to a particular concept. The
book engages in the theoretical groundwork necessary for assessing
and analysing the specific dilemmas that arise when translating
democratic concepts into concrete institutional designs in the
European setting.
This book aims to show practice approaches at work in the fields of
European diplomacy and security broadly conceived. It sets out to
provide readers with a hands-on sense of where research on social
practices and European diplomacy, security and foreign policy
currently stands. The book reviews how practice approaches have
evolved in International Relations (IR) and brings together an
unique set of contributions which highlights how insights from
practice approaches can be applied to advance research on a number
of key issues in these fields. While the debate about practices in
IR goes beyond the case of diplomacy, the latter has become a
showcase for the former and this book continues the debate on
practices and diplomacy by zooming in on the European Union.
Examples of issues covered include the evolution of EU-NATO
relations seen from the perspective of communities of practice,
burden sharing as an anchoring practice for European states'
involvement in crisis management operations, the practical
knowledge shaping the EU's responses to the Arab Uprisings, agency
as accomplished in and through EU counter-piracy practices and the
political resistance to Israeli occupation and the non-official
recognition of Palestine performed by EU diplomats. Thus, by
focusing on specific practices and analytical mechanisms that
contribute to understand the transformations of European diplomacy,
security and foreign policy, this book provides essential readings
to anyone interested in innovative ways to grasp the contemporary
challenges that face the EU and its member states. The chapters
originally published as a special issue of European Security.
This book explores how the European Union responds to the ongoing
challenges to the liberal international order. These challenges
arise both within the EU itself and beyond its borders, and put
into question the values of free trade and liberal democracy. The
book's interdisciplinary approach brings together scholars from
economics, law, and political science to provide a comprehensive
analysis of how shifts in the international order affect the global
position of the EU in dimensions such as foreign and security
policy, trade, migration, populism, rule of law, and climate
change. All chapters include policy recommendations which make the
book particularly useful for decision makers and policy advisors,
besides researchers and students, as well as for anyone interested
in the future of the EU.
This is the first book in the Interdisciplinary European Studies
collection. This volume provides an interdisciplinary perspective
on trust in the EU from the vantage point of political science, law
and economics. It applies insights from a number of different
dimensions - political institutions, legal convergence in criminal
and civil law, social trust, digitalization, the diffusion of
political values and norms, monetary convergence and the legitimacy
of political systems - to approach the highly complex issue of
trust in the EU in a clear-sighted, relevant and insightful manner.
Written by renowned experts in the field, the style is accessible
and reader-friendly, yet concise, knowledgeable and
thought-provoking. The individual chapters combine up-to-date
research findings with reflections on on-going political debates
and offer useful, concrete ideas on what steps the EU could take to
address the challenge of trust. The book provides the reader with
invaluable insights into how trust, or rather the lack of trust,
poses a challenge to the future of the social, economic and
political developments in the EU. It is a must-read for
policy-makers, students and interested members of the public who
feel concerned by the future of Europe.
This is the first book in the Interdisciplinary European Studies
collection. This volume provides an interdisciplinary perspective
on trust in the EU from the vantage point of political science, law
and economics. It applies insights from a number of different
dimensions - political institutions, legal convergence in criminal
and civil law, social trust, digitalization, the diffusion of
political values and norms, monetary convergence and the legitimacy
of political systems - to approach the highly complex issue of
trust in the EU in a clear-sighted, relevant and insightful manner.
Written by renowned experts in the field, the style is accessible
and reader-friendly, yet concise, knowledgeable and
thought-provoking. The individual chapters combine up-to-date
research findings with reflections on on-going political debates
and offer useful, concrete ideas on what steps the EU could take to
address the challenge of trust. The book provides the reader with
invaluable insights into how trust, or rather the lack of trust,
poses a challenge to the future of the social, economic and
political developments in the EU. It is a must-read for
policy-makers, students and interested members of the public who
feel concerned by the future of Europe.
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