Party ideologies and European foreign policy. Examining the transnational foreign policy space

Otjes, Simon; Veer, Harmen van der; Wagner, Wolfgang

doi:10.1080/13501763.2022.2096103

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“…By focussing on the public opinion of foreign an security policy-making in Europe, this article not only contributes to the debate on whether external threats can result in further EU integration (Freudlsperger & Schimmelfennig, 2022 ; Genschel, 2022 ; Genschel & Schimmelfennig, 2022 ) but also speaks to the literature on the development of EU foreign and security policy and strategic autonomy in general (Howorth, 2001 ; Howorth & Keeler, 2003 ; Ojanen, 2006 ; Smith, 2004 ). In addition, with the emphasis on the demand side of foreign and security policy, this article, by analysing the citizens' preferences, also taps into the discussion of how domestic partisan politics could influence foreign and security policy decision-making (Otjes et al, 2022 ; Raunio & Wagner, 2020 ).…”

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A unified autonomous Europe? Public opinion of the EU's foreign and security policy

Wang

Moise

2023

Journal of European Public Policy

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The Russian invasion of Ukraine has pushed the EU into a new phase where both the political elites and the public start to rethink its foreign and security policies. This paper uses a unique survey in seven European countries in the wake of the war to examine European public opinion on how the EU's foreign and security policies should be made and how autonomous they should be. We find that Europeans not only favour increasing military capacity at the national or NATO level but also prefer increasing military capacity at the EU level, though to a lesser degree. We also show that perceptions of both short-term and long-term threats, European identification and mainstream left-wing ideology lead Europeans to favour a more militarily powerful, unified and autonomous EU.

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A unified autonomous Europe? Public opinion of the EU's foreign and security policy

Wang

Moise

2023

Journal of European Public Policy

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Italian parties and the European Union's response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine: A qualitative content analysis

Capati

2024

Riv. ital. sci. polit.

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This paper analyses Italian party positions on the EU's response to the Russo-Ukrainian war, singling out the adoption of sanctions against Russia, the provision of military support to Kiev, enlargement to Ukraine and the welcoming of Ukrainian refugees into the Union's territory as the four main dimension of such a response. The paper draws on the literatures on cleavage politics, the inverted U curve and the differentiated forms of politicisation, thereby testing theory-driven research hypotheses through a qualitative content analysis of Italian parties' Facebook posts in the three months following the outbreak of the conflict, combining an inductive and a deductive approach. The findings show that party families are a good explanatory factor behind Italian party positions vis-à-vis the EU's response to the war outbreak as parties belonging to the same family shared a similar stance on the four dimensions of such a response. On the contrary, the Europeanism/Euroscepticism divide does not explain Italian party positions on the EU's reaction to the Ukrainian conflict as Europeanist parties split over the EU's provision of weapons to Ukraine about as much as Eurosceptic partis split over the adoption of sanctions against Moscow. Finally, the paper shows that policy issues in the EU's response to the war (such as sanctions and arms delivery) were much more salient for and contested by Italian political parties than constitutive issues (such as enlargement and asylum).

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Far left and far right party reactions to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

Fagerholm

2024

West European Politics

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Party ideologies and European foreign policy. Examining the transnational foreign policy space

Cited by 10 publications

References 64 publications

A unified autonomous Europe? Public opinion of the EU's foreign and security policy

A unified autonomous Europe? Public opinion of the EU's foreign and security policy

Italian parties and the European Union's response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine: A qualitative content analysis

Far left and far right party reactions to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

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