Constructing the CFSP: The Utility of a Cognitive Approach

Ben Tonra

Journal of Common Market Studies, 2003, vol. 41, issue 4, 731-756

Abstract: Traditional analyses of the European Union's common foreign and security policy (CFSP) tend to characterize it either as an effete and declaratory expression of lowest common denominator politics, or as a limited framework for median‐interest foreign policy bargaining. Even at a modest empirical level, however, these representations of CFSP fail to convince in view of its development in recent years. This article will argue that a cognitive approach towards the study of CFSP opens up new and crucial vistas for analysis, and offers some striking conclusions on the reciprocal relationship between CFSP and national foreign policies and the transforming capacity of the CFSP vis‐à‐vis national foreign policies, including their ‘Europeanization’.

Date: 2003
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