2015
DOI: 10.1111/jcms.12288
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(Not) in the Hands of the Member States: How the European Commission Influences EU Security and Defence Policies

Abstract: The European Union's (EU) Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) is run using special procedures. The Member States have not delegated powers to the supranational institutions. Yet a number of studies challenge the assumption that policy-making lies exclusively with Member States' governments. The Commission's putative influence within the CFSP, however, remains to be studied systematically from an analytical perspective. Aiming to fill this gap in the literature, this article asks how the Commission de fac… Show more

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“…Second, there is an ongoing debate on the creeping influence of supranational actors in EU foreign and security policy. Despite member states' strong reluctance to transfer decision-making competences in foreign and security affairs to the European level, recent studies show that supranational actors such as the European Commission, the European Parliament or the European Court of Justice have played an increasingly important role in CFSP/CSDP policy-making, taking it beyond intergovernmental cooperation (Blauberger and Weiss 2013;Riddervold 2016;Rosén and Raube 2018).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Second, there is an ongoing debate on the creeping influence of supranational actors in EU foreign and security policy. Despite member states' strong reluctance to transfer decision-making competences in foreign and security affairs to the European level, recent studies show that supranational actors such as the European Commission, the European Parliament or the European Court of Justice have played an increasingly important role in CFSP/CSDP policy-making, taking it beyond intergovernmental cooperation (Blauberger and Weiss 2013;Riddervold 2016;Rosén and Raube 2018).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This can be witnessed across the various external policy domains: external trade policy (da Conceicão‐Heldt ; Delreux ; Elsig, 2007), development policy (Carbone ; Grilli , pp. 90, 98), external migration policy (Bürgin ; Trauner and Manigrassi ), enlargement and neighbourhood policy (Jones and Clark ; Macmillan ), external environmental and energy policy (Mayer ; Renner ; Rietig ), and even to some extent in the EU's security and defence policy (Krause ; Riddervold ).…”
Section: Neofunctionalist Logics For Explaining Eu External Policy Inmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…A number of scholars have researched the role of working groups and committees within the Council that take on a life of their own in terms of influencing foreign policy beyond what we might expect from Member States alone (Cross, ; Duke, ; Howorth, ; Juncos and Pomorska, ; Juncos and Reynolds, ; Lewis, ). Others have argued that supranational institutions, such as the Commission, are gradually taking on a stronger role in foreign and security policy (Riddervold, ). And since the 2009 Lisbon Treaty, scholars have shown a similar interest in the internal workings of the European External Action Service (Bátora, ; Juncos and Pomorska, ).…”
Section: The Eu As a Foreign Policy Actormentioning
confidence: 99%