Informal groups in EU foreign policy : a social network analysis

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dc.contributor.authorAMADIO VICERÉ, Maria Giulia
dc.date.accessioned2024-06-21T12:10:38Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.descriptionPublished online: 18 June 2024en
dc.description.abstractAfter decades of increasing integration and institutional development in EU foreign policy, the persistence of informal groups calls into question the understanding of European integration as a straight progressive line from informal to formal cooperation. Nonetheless, to date there is no systematic empirical knowledge of informal groups in EEC/EU foreign policy. To address this knowledge gap, the article offers an exploratory study. By means of social network analysis, it maps the frequency and types of informal groups in EEC/EU foreign policy in regard to Kosovo, Libya and Syria in three different phases of EEC/EU foreign policy integration. The article’s findings show that the frequency of informal groups has remained fairly stable across the three phases of EEC/EU integration considered. At the same time, informal groups have generally been relatively small, like-minded, and dominated by individual member states. Overall, these results suggest that by accommodating member states’ interests, especially those of powerful states and of states for which certain foreign policy issues are particularly salient, informal groups have provided the cooperation needed for the coherent functioning of the EEC/EU foreign policy system. While doing so, they have consolidated as socially meaningful patterns among member states’ representatives.en
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dc.identifier.citationJournal of European public policy, 2024, OnlineFirsten
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/13501763.2024.2367066
dc.identifier.issn1350-1763
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/76980
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dc.titleInformal groups in EU foreign policy : a social network analysisen
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