Date: 2010
Type: Book
European Foreign and Security Policy: States, Power, Institutions, and American Hegemony
Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, 2010
GEGOUT, Catherine, European Foreign and Security Policy: States, Power, Institutions, and American Hegemony, Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, 2010
- https://hdl.handle.net/1814/15360
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The European Union's (EU) Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) stipulates that all member states must unanimously ratify policy proposals through their representatives on the EU Council. Intergovernmentalism, or the need for equal agreement from all member nations, is used by many political scientists and policy analysts to study how the EU achieves its CFSP. However, in European Foreign and Security Policy, Catherine Gegout modifies this theory, arguing instead for analyses based on what she terms 'constrained intergovernmentalism.' Gegout's theory of constrained intergovernmentalism allows for member states, in particular France, Germany, and the United Kingdom, to bargain with one another and to make rational decisions but also takes into account the constraints imposed by the United States, the European Commission, and the precedents set by past decisions. Three in-depth case studies of CFSP decision-making support her argument, as she examines the EU position on China's human rights record, EU sanctions against Serbia, and EU relations with NATO.
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/15360
ISBN: 9781442640948
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Initial version: http://hdl.handle.net/1814/5120
Version: Published version of EUI PhD thesis, 2004