Eu Foreign Policy And The Europeanization Of Neutral States: Comparing Irish And Austrian Foreign Policy (routledge Advances In European Politics)

This book examines the effects of the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) of the European Union (EU) on the national foreign policies of Ireland and Austria. Small and neutral EU member states provide a fascinating case-study as the CFSP entails a dilemma for them. Their size may create assumptions that they are more likely to adopt EU policy, yet the traditional position of neutrality may act contrary to Europeanization. By concentrating on this side of the reciprocal relationship between EU and national foreign policy, the book takes a new and innovative approach to investigate prospects for a common European foreign policy, and goes beyond an examination of changes in the national foreign policies of Ireland and Austria to provide an engaging explanation and understanding of Europeanization. Based on a comprehensive conceptual framework, this text investigates three dimensions of national foreign policy; the Europeanization of foreign policy-making, the Europeanization of foreign policy substance and effects on neutrality, to create an accessible and informed insight into the evolution of European cooperation in the field of foreign policy, and the impact on national foreign policy. EU Foreign Policy and the Europeanization of Neutral States will be of interest to students and scholars of European Studies, International Relations and Foreign Policy. This volume explores the effects of European Political Cooperation and its successor the Common Foreign and Security Policy on the national foreign policies of Ireland and Austria, two small and neutral states suggest contradicting hypotheses regarding expected foreign policy behavior, with one aspect of the literature on small states suggesting that they should support and follow foreign policy coordination and cooperation because of their limited capacity to influence international events and actors while another aspect suggests small countries with a neutrality tradition would resist adaptations of their foreign policy traditions to recent European militarization policies and increased involvement in world affairs that might violate neutrality and constrain valued notions of sovereignty. These conflicting hypotheses are tested in reference to changes in the organizational structures of the national state institutions involved in foreign policy, changes in the substance of the states' general foreign policy agendas and specific foreign policy positions as revealed in relation to UN General Assembly behavior and commitment to areas of special interest within the Common Foreign and Security Policy, and approaches to neutrality over time. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) 1. Introduction And State Of The Art In The Field -- 2. Conceptual And Empirical Context -- 3. Background Of Irish And Austrian Foreign Policy -- 4. Ireland: Europeanization Of Foreign Policy-making -- 5. Ireland: Europeanization Of Foreign Policy Substance -- 6. Ireland: Effects On Approaches To Neutrality -- 7. Austria: Europeanization Of Foreign Policy-making -- 8. Austria: Europeanization Of Foreign Policy Substance -- 9. Austria: Effects On Approaches To Neutrality -- 10. Comparison Of The Findings And Overall Assessment -- 11. Conclusions. Nicole Alecu De Flers. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.