This Second Edition of Making Policy in Europe is fully revised and expanded to provide the most up-to-date introduction to the study of policymaking in the European Union (EU). The first part of the book introduces the different perspectives to study of the EU as a political system, and provides a framework for the study of the main actors and institutions in the decision-making process from transnational lobbying within Brussels to the implementation of EU law in national member states. Part two introduces each of the main sectoral policy areas. The common "market" is introduced and reviewed before students are provided with detailed studies of policies and policy-making in telecommunication

The Common Foreign and Security Policy: Limits of Intergovernmentalism and the Search for a Global Role

The Common Foreign and Security Policy: Limits of Intergovernmentalism and the Search for a Global Role

The common foreign and security policy: Limits of intergovernmentalism and the search for a global role
HelenSjursen1

Re-Defining Foreign and Security Policy

The Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) of the European Union is often overlooked and sometimes even ridiculed in studies of European integration. Until recently it was not unusual to argue that the EU did not have a foreign policy, that is, to describe the CFSP as a ‘myth’. Integrating in this area of so-called ‘high politics’ has often been described as synonymous with ‘surrendering sovereignty’ altogether. When put to the test, national perspectives seemed to prevail over efforts to conduct a common European foreign policy. Nonetheless, at the end ...

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