Chelotti, N;
(2013)
Analysing the Links between National Capitals and Brussels in EU Foreign Policy.
West European Politics
, 36
(5)
1052 - 1072.
10.1080/01402382.2013.799310.
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Abstract
The article contributes to the study of EU foreign policy decision-making processes by analysing the links between national officials working in the committees of the Council of the EU and their capitals. Through an original dataset of 138 questionnaires (and 20 interviews) with national representatives, it explores the micro-foundations of the formulation of EU foreign policy. It first shows how, even in this most intergovernmental field, diplomats in Brussels play a very important role in the policy process: only 30 per cent claim to always have a mandate and half state that they do not feel constrained by their capital. Next, it reveals that if (larger) member states attempt to retain control of CFSP/CSDP negotiations, the effective discretion/autonomy these officials enjoy depends on the experience accumulated in the decision-making process, and knowledge of the (formal and informal) links between Brussels and the home department.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Analysing the Links between National Capitals and Brussels in EU Foreign Policy |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/01402382.2013.799310 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01402382.2013.799310 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2013 The Author(s). Published by Taylor & Francis This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The moral rights of the named author(s) have been asserted. Permission is granted subject to the terms of the License under which the work was published. Please check the License conditions for the work which you wish to reuse. Full and appropriate attribution must be given. This permission does not cover any third party copyrighted material which may appear in the work requested. |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1467120 |
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