Europe's Foreign and Security Policy: The Institutionalization of Cooperation (Themes in European Governance)

Emergence of a common security and foreign policy has been one of the most contentious issues accompanying the integration of the European Union. With extensive empirical evidence drawn from interviews, case studies, official documents and secondary sources, Michael Smith examines the specific ways foreign policy cooperation has been institutionalized in the EU. This analysis will appeal to scholars and researchers in international relations, law, foreign policy and European studies. Cover......Page 1 Half-title......Page 3 Series-title......Page 5 Title......Page 7 Copyright......Page 8 Dedication......Page 9 Contents......Page 11 Tables......Page 13 Acknowledgments......Page 14 Abbreviations......Page 16 Introduction: foreign and security policy in the European Union......Page 19 1 The existence, endurance, and expansion of EU foreign policy......Page 21 2 EU foreign policy and the external world......Page 22 3 EU foreign policy and European integration......Page 23 4 The mechanisms and resources of European foreign policy......Page 25 5 EU foreign policy and domestic politics......Page 26 An institutional approach to European foreign policy......Page 27 A note on terminology and methodology......Page 30 Part I Institutions and foreign policy cooperation: the theoretical and empirical terrain......Page 33 1 The institutionalization of cooperation: an analytical framework......Page 35 Why an institutional approach to EU foreign policy cooperation?......Page 36 Institutional change and cooperation: competing paradigms......Page 41 Toward a theory of institutionalization......Page 43 Processes of institutionalization......Page 50 Summary......Page 53 2 Institutions and European foreign policy cooperation: the empirical link......Page 55 Defining institutionalization......Page 56 Stages of institutionalization......Page 58 Measuring EU foreign policy cooperation......Page 67 Quantitative indicators of cooperation......Page 68 Qualitative indicators of cooperation......Page 72 Institutionalization, cooperation, and domestic politics......Page 75 Summary......Page 78 Part II The institutionalization of cooperation......Page 79 3 Origins: intergovernmentalism and European Political Cooperation......Page 81 EPC: the origins......Page 83 The institutional structure of EPC......Page 89 Procedural changes......Page 95 Substantive EPC outcomes......Page 102 4 Information-sharing and the transgovernmental EPC network......Page 108 The context of change......Page 111 The institutional mechanisms......Page 113 The European Council and EPC......Page 116 Procedural changes......Page 118 Substantive EPC outcomes......Page 126 5 Norms, rules, and laws in European foreign policy......Page 135 Procedural norms of European foreign policy......Page 138 The emergence and effects of procedural EPC norms......Page 139 The London Report on EPC......Page 143 EPC norms and EC laws......Page 148 EPC norms and the European Court of Justice......Page 150 Substantiv European foreign policy norms......Page 152 The emergence and effects of substantive EPC norms......Page 153 EPC and European security......Page 159 6 Organizations and European foreign policy......Page 163 Organizations and EPC: from the London Report to the Single European Act......Page 166 EPC and the Single European Act......Page 167 The Commission and European foreign policy......Page 172 The evolution of Commission involvement in EPC......Page 173 Structure and resources......Page 176 The Commission’s influence in EPC......Page 178 Origins, structure, resources......Page 184 The performance of the EPC Secretariat......Page 186 Resources and influence of the EP......Page 188 7 Toward governance: the Common Foreign and Security Policy......Page 194 The Treaty on European Union......Page 195 The Common Foreign and Security Policy......Page 198 The CFSP as a rational policy process......Page 199 Binding legal norms in the CFSP......Page 202 Authoritative CFSP decision-making rules......Page 203 Enhanced autonomy of EC organizations......Page 204 Procedural performance: the CFSP policy process......Page 208 Substantive performance: CFSP common positions and joint actions......Page 212 The CFSP, security, and the WEU......Page 219 Security-related actions......Page 220 The CFSP and the WEU......Page 222 Part III Residual institutional issues......Page 225 8 Unfinished business: coherence and the EU’s global ambitions......Page 227 The institutionalization of coherence......Page 228 Coherence and institutional performance......Page 232 Informal post-Maastricht institutional reforms......Page 238 Formal institutional reforms: from Amsterdam to Nice......Page 244 CFSP reforms under Amsterdam......Page 245 The CFSP and ESDP after Nice......Page 251 Conclusion: beyond the CFSP: institutions, defense, and the European identity......Page 257 Institutionalization and cooperation revisited......Page 258 1 The existence, endurance and expansion of European foreign policy......Page 263 2 EU foreign policy and the external world......Page 265 3 EU foreign policy and European integration......Page 267 4 The mechanisms and resources of European foreign policy......Page 268 5 EU foreign policy and domestic politics......Page 270 Beyond institutions and cooperation: toward a European identity?......Page 271 Europe’s constitutional future and the CFSP/EDSP......Page 276 EUROPEAN COMMUNITY SOURCES (ONLY MAJOR PUBLICATIONS LISTED)......Page 282 BOOKS AND ARTICLES......Page 284 Index......Page 302 The emergence of a common security and foreign policy has been one of the most contentious issues accompanying the integration of the European Union. In this book, Michael Smith examines the specific ways foreign policy cooperation has been institutionalized in the EU, the way institutional development affects cooperative outcomes in foreign policy, and how those outcomes lead to new institutional reforms. Smith explains the evolution and performance of the institutional procedures of the EU using a unique analytical framework, supported by extensive empirical evidence drawn from interviews, case studies, official documents and secondary sources. His perceptive and well-informed analysis covers the entire history of EU foreign policy cooperation, from its origins in the late 1960s up to the start of the 2003 constitutional convention. Demonstrating the importance and extent of EU foreign/security policy, the book will be of interest to scholars, researchers and policy-makers.--Publisher description List of tables Acknowledgements List of abbreviations Introduction: foreign and security policy in the European Union Part I. Institutions and Foreign Policy Cooperation: The Theoretical and Empirical Terrain: 1. The institutionalization of cooperation: an analytical framework 2. Institutions and European foreign policy cooperation: the empirical link Part II. The Institutionalization of Cooperation: 3. Origins: intergovernmentalism and European Political Cooperation 4. Information-sharing and the transgovernmental EPC network 5. Norms, rules and laws in European foreign policy 6. Organizations and European foreign policy 7. Toward governance: the Common Foreign and Security Policy Part III. Residual Institutional Issues: 8. Unfinished business: coherence and the EU's global ambitions Conclusion: beyond the CFSP: institutions, defense and the European identity References Index Foreign and security policy cooperation has long been one of the most ambitious goals of those who favor a more united Europe, yet the original mechanism to achieve this goal, European Political Cooperation, was vague in its scope and severely limited in terms of institutional design.