Reviewing Member States’ Commitment to the European External Action Service. EPIN Working Paper No. 34, 20 November 2012

Pertusot , Vivien and Möller, Almut and Rappold, Julian and Burke, Edward and van Schaik, Louise and Ivan, Paul and Landal, Fredrik and João Seabra, Maria and Viilup, Elina and Molina, Ignacio and Sorroza, Alicia and Blockmans, Steven (2012) Reviewing Member States’ Commitment to the European External Action Service. EPIN Working Paper No. 34, 20 November 2012. [Working Paper]

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Abstract

Based on interviews with diplomats from a representative cross-section of nine member states and members of the EEAS itself, the research findings of this EPIN Working Paper confirm long-standing traditions and member state perceptions of cooperation with European institutions. The paper also reveals new aspects of the intergovernmental method of foreign policy shaping and making in the European Union; in particular how different national positions can positively or negatively affect the consolidation of the EEAS and the role of the EU as an international actor. As such, the Working Paper makes an original contribution to the existing literature on one of most discussed actors in the European Union’s post-Lisbon architecture in the domain of EU external action.

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