Division of labour and specialization in EU foreign policy-making

Delreux, Tom and Keukeleire, Stephan (2015) Division of labour and specialization in EU foreign policy-making. [Conference Proceedings] (Submitted)

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Abstract

Introduction: Foreign policy-making in the European Union (EU) often deviates from the formal rules and is largely characterized by processes of informal division of labour between member states and European institutions. Such informal processes, which result is foreign policy-making driven by specialization, have largely escaped the radar of EU foreign policy scholars, but are important for fully understanding how the EU functions in many foreign policy dossiers. This paper presents a framework for mapping the different manifestations of informal division of labour and for understanding its consequences for EU foreign policy.

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