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 Policy (CFSP) has been criticized for its lack of democratic legitimacy … suggest that the increasing recognition of the Parliament as an important policy actor by the other European institutions …

What kind of democracy might fit the developing Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) given the political …-designs for a more democratic European Union (EU) in general and a democratized Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) in …

This paper focuses on the role of information and knowledge in the EU foreign policy system. In particular, it examines … gathering and knowledge construction, the issue of whose information and knowledge informs policy proposals is likely to become …

) incompatibility between democracy and justice; the idea that a context of justice only exists within the confines of a state; and the … view that political democracy presupposes a demos organised within a state. Only if these dogmas are overcome can a proper … conception of transnational justice and democracy be worked out. The key to this is the right picture of justice as based on a …

level. Whereas some parliaments are very well informed and closely monitor government policy, others are, by and large, left …

. Thirdly, we find that a primary concern in EU legitimacy contestation is democracy, especially for those evaluating EU …

of democracy that looks at public decision-making processes through a gender lens: gender democracy. It then takes two … the Recast Equality Directive. Using the concept ‘gender democracy’, the paper illuminates the contingent treatment of …

Even though the member states have kept the European Union’s security and defense policy intergovernmental, there has …