The Eu Foreign Policy Analysis: Democratic Legitimacy, Media, And Climate Change (the Palgrave Macmillan Series In International Political Communication)

The book presents a model of interaction effects between policymakers and the media which can shed light on the former's ability to enhance democratic legitimacy in foreign policy decision-making. It shows that the media enhanced the democratic legitimacy of the EU's foreign policy in relation to its climate policy and its approach towards Russia. The book presents a model of interaction effects between policymakers and the media which can shed light on the former's ability to enhance democratic legitimacy in foreign policy decision-making. Three types of interaction effects between the media and policymakers are identified within the European public sphere: indexing, bounding, and agenda setting. Empirically, two distinct areas of EU foreign policy are explored: the EU's approach to global climate change and its policy towards Russia. Nitoiu demonstrates in his central case study on the EU's approach to climate change the media's ability to endow EU foreign policy with democratic legitimacy, and how the EU has acted accordingly Front Matter....Pages i-xi Introduction....Pages 1-12 Democratic Legitimacy and EU Foreign Policy: Is Such a Link Conceivable?....Pages 13-40 Mapping Interaction Effects within the Media/Foreign Policy Nexus....Pages 41-63 Research Framework and Methods....Pages 65-85 The Transnational Level....Pages 87-117 The United Kingdom....Pages 119-148 Romania....Pages 149-176 Conclusions....Pages 177-192 Back Matter....Pages 193-249