The SAGE Handbook of European Foreign Policy: Two Volume Set

Jørgensen, KE; Aarstad, Åk; Drieskens, Edith; Laatikainen, Katie Verlin; Tonra, Ben

doi:10.4135/9781473915190

Cited by 45 publications

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“…Faced with this compartmentalized decision-making system, the central governments of all the member states each have an EU coordination mechanism that is used to crystallize negotiation positions for their plenipotentiaries (Kassim 2013(Kassim , 2015. These coordination mechanisms have been the centre of extensive academic scrutiny for many decades (for an overview of the literature see Jensen and Nedergaard 2015). This is not surprising given the central role the Council occupies in the institutional architecture of the EU and the authoritative decisions it takes, which have a substantial impact on the societies concerned (Kassim 2015).…”

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confidence: 99%

Exploring Central Governments' Coordination of European Union Affairs

Jensen

2017

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This study explores the coordination mechanisms managed by the central governments of the European Union (EU) in order to develop negotiation positions for their plenipotentiaries in the Council. Utilizing novel data from an expert survey, the first part examines the relationships within and between the structures and processes of EU coordination, the actors involved, and the mechanisms' efficacy. The analysis shows that highly formalized coordination mechanisms are associated with developing timely, clear and consistent negotiation positions. The second part allocates the 28 member states' EU coordination mechanisms into different clusters, including unicentric, pluricentric, decentric, proactive, reactive, politicized, depoliticized, high efficacy and low efficacy. Intriguing differences are identified, such as the fact that the Central and Eastern European member states' mechanisms are typically more reactive where coordination centres on the national capital and the Council negotiations.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Exploring Central Governments' Coordination of European Union Affairs

Jensen

2017

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“…For decades, the EU's evolving international profile has nurtured debate among IR scholars about the EU's role and significance in international affairs (Carlsnaes et al, 2004;Jørgensen et al, 2015;Tonra and Christiansen, 2004). Perhaps most prominently, this debate has evolved between scholars who conceptualized the EU as a distinct international power (Aggestam, 2008;Duchêne, 1973Manners, 2002Wagner, 2017), and their realist or English School critics, who emphasized the EU's limited capacity to act as an independent, let alone distinct, power in the international system (Bull, 1982Hyde-Price, 2006.…”

Section: Theorizing the Eu's Actornessmentioning

confidence: 99%

Theorizing the EU's Actorness: Towards an Interactionist Role Theory Framework

Klose

2018

J of Common Market Studies

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For decades, actorness has been a much‐debated concept central to the theorization and analysis of the EU's evolution as an international actor. While this concept is often presented as a set of factors, which together shape the EU's capacity to act internationally, the literature displays a surprisingly deficient understanding of how these factors interact in the emergence of actorness. To address this gap, this article theorizes about actorness from an interactionist role theory perspective, which draws on the works of social psychologist George Herbert Mead. In building on this perspective, the article conceptualizes actorness as an entity's capacity to (re)‐imagine and realize roles for its ‘self’ in (specific contexts of) international affairs. This capacity, the approach suggests, emerges in the interplay of (social and material) resources, creative action and (domestic and external) role expectations.

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“…It might however also be that EU-US relations have weakened in light of rising powers making territorial claims, if the EU instead of allying with the US develops its own policies, independently of and in contrast to those of the US. Since the 1990s, a growing literature has argued that the EU has become a strong foreign policy actor in its own right (Jørgensen et al 2015). The EU has for example developed a wide range of foreign policy tools, including military capabilities and the EU increasingly speaks with one voice at the international arena.…”

Section: The Autonomy Hypothesis: Weakening Eu-us Relationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…While for the EU, Russia's invasion of Crimea and efforts to control East Ukraine exposes the stability and security of the EU's nearest neighbors and even some of the member states. Beyond these strategic considerations, a dominant strand in the literature on the EU's foreign policy depicts the Union as an increasingly confident and internationally autonomous international actor (Jørgensen et al 2015). A corollary is that the EU is not only taking on a bigger international role but also that it increasingly leads a different type of foreign policy than the US, with reference to for example the EU-US divisions over Iraq (Anderson et al 2008;M.E.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Unified in response to rising powers? China, Russia and EU-US relations

Riddervold

Rosén

2018

Journal of European Integration

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How do the EU and the US respond to rising powers making territorial claims? Are they unified in their approaches, and if not, where do their policies diverge? Transatlantic unity or dissent in response to main geopolitical issues has implications for our understanding of transatlantic security relations and for the future of global power-relations more broadly. We explore EU-US positions and responses to Chinese advances in the South China Sea and Russia's actions in the Ukraine. Two hypotheses guide our analysis: First, that they cooperate to balance against these powers, hence strengthening transatlantic relations. Secondly, that the EU is developing policies independently of the US, thus weakening EU-US relations. Our findings suggest that despite a general coherence of American and European stance in both cases, the level of coordination varies. Instead, we find signs of weakening EU-US security relations as the EU develops a more autonomous policy vis-à-vis the US.

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The SAGE Handbook of European Foreign Policy: Two Volume Set

Cited by 45 publications

References 35 publications

Exploring Central Governments' Coordination of European Union Affairs

Exploring Central Governments' Coordination of European Union Affairs

Theorizing the EU's Actorness: Towards an Interactionist Role Theory Framework

Unified in response to rising powers? China, Russia and EU-US relations

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