Search Results - subject:"ESDP"

Coming to terms with the ‘legitimacy crisis’ of European foreign politics: The European Parliament pushing the frontiers of consultation

Wisniewski, Elisabeth - RECON - 2011

Since its early beginnings, the member states of the European Communities have tried to establish a common foreign policy and at the same time were reluctant to implement it. Only the Maastricht Treaty introduced an institutional framework. However, the emerging Common Foreign and Security...

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Debating humanitarian military interventions in the European public sphere

Kantner, Cathleen - RECON - 2011

What kind of democracy might fit the developing Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) given the political developments and the evolution of public debate on security and defence issues over the last twenty years? Different model-designs for a more democratic European Union (EU) in general...

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The Role of Information and Knowledge in the EU Foreign Policy System Evidence from Heads of Mission’s Reports

Bicchi, Federica - RECON - 2011

This paper focuses on the role of information and knowledge in the EU foreign policy system. In particular, it examines the case of HoMs reports, which are drafted by Heads of Mission (HoMs) in non-EU countries about the situation on the ground and what the EU could/should do about it. They...

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A Divided Union? Public Opinion and the EU’s Common Foreign, Security and Defence Policy

Peters, Dirk - RECON - 2011

There are few policy areas in which European integration in the past two decades has progressed as fast as in the foreign, security and defence realm. The democratic foundation of these developments, however, has been contested. This paper examines the question of democratic legitimacy from one...

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EU External Representation in Conflict Resolution: When does the Presidency or the High Representative Speak for Europe?

Dijkstra, Hylke - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 15 (2011) 02

Who speaks for Europe is a major question in European integration, yet few systematic attempts have been made to study when the Presidency or the High Representative represents the European Union. This article uses two most-similar cases of conflict resolution with significant EU involvement to...

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The Political and Security Committee: A Case Study in "Supranational Inter-Governmentalism"

Howorth, Joylon - Centre d'études européennes (CEE) at Sciences Po, Paris - 2010

The distinctive profile of the European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) as it has emerged to date is complex and far …-control expertise. The role, in this gestation, of the key policy-shaping instrument which has underpinned ESDP – the Political and … process. The PSC has emerged, to a significant degree, as script-writer for ESDP. …

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The COREU/CORTESY network and the circulation of information within EU foreign policy

Bicchi, Federica; Carta, Caterina - RECON - 2010

The COREU/CORTESY network, through which member states exchange documents related to the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) is a crucial but little known instrument in the EU system of foreign policy making. This paper aims to shed light on how it works and what function it serves. It...

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European identity constructions in public debates on wars and military interventions

Biegoń, Dominika - RECON - 2010

Drawing on the classical distinction between community (Gemeinschaft) and society (Gesellschaft) by Tönnies (1963) and the related analytical distinction between strong and weak forms of collective identities, this paper analyses European identity constructions in ‘future-of-Europe’-debates...

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Informal elite dialogue and democratic control in EU foreign and security policy

Wiener, Antje; Puetter, Uwe - RECON - 2010

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Understanding the Role of Bureaucracy in the European Security and Defence Policy: The State of the Art

Vanhoonacker, Sophie; Dijkstra, Hylke; Heidi, Maurer - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 14 (2010) 08

The establishment of the European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) in 1999 has led to the creation of a whole range …

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