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European Union Foreign Policy

Part of the Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9780230302020

ISBN: 978-1-349-32823-9

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK - Springer Journals

Nov 20, 2015

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Chapter 1Introduction

Bickerton, Christopher J.

Pages: 1 –11

[Though the final goals of European integration have long been subject to debate, there was little doubt that the main concerns lay squarely within Europe. In Alan Milward’s seminal account, national governments were concerned, above all, to meet the rising expectations of their own populations,...
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Chapter 2Functionality in European Union Foreign Policy: A Framework for Analysis

Bickerton, Christopher J.

Pages: 12 –33

[In his famous study of prisons in the modern age, Michel Foucault noted that these institutions had traditionally been studied in terms of their success or failure as centres of correction and rehabilitation. In his view, this evaded the more radical question of what function prisons served in...
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Chapter 3Managing Ambivalence: National Foreign Policy in an Age of ‘Power Avoidance’

Bickerton, Christopher J.

Pages: 34 –56

[Convention has it that the EU’s foreign policy is the ‘lowest common denominator’, a calculation made on the basis of the little that EU member states can agree on given the profound differences that exist on matters of foreign and security policy (Nuttall, 2000). Commentators highlight the...
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Chapter 4The Politics of Performance: ‘Turf Wars’ in Common Security and Defence Policy

Bickerton, Christopher J.

Pages: 57 –72

[In the EU’s CSDP,1 much has been made of the uniqueness of the EU’s contribution to international affairs. For those enthusiasts of closer foreign and security cooperation in Europe, what matters most is that the EU is particularly well-suited to meeting the demands of the early twenty-first...
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Chapter 5Normative Power and the EU’s Search for Meaning

Bickerton, Christopher J.

Pages: 73 –98

[Alongside national strategies and inter-institutional rivalries, a third function of EU foreign policy is its site as an occasion for EU identity building. As noted in the Introduction, EU foreign policy can be thought of as the next phase of European integration. One reason for this is that it...
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Chapter 6Saving the Union? EU Foreign Policy and the Democratic Deficit

Bickerton, Christopher J.

Pages: 99 –117

[This chapter connects the preceding discussion about the functions of EU foreign policy with that of the democratic deficit. It does this because one important — though more contingent — function of EU foreign policy is to mitigate some of the EU’s legitimacy problems, namely its ‘democratic...
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Chapter 7Conclusion

Bickerton, Christopher J.

Pages: 118 –129

[A great deal of caution is needed when making predictions about the future role of the EU in international affairs. Some scholars have declared an end to the EU’s navel-gazing and have focused instead on foreign policy outputs. It is not what the EU is that matters, they argue, but what it does....

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