Wide-awake diplomacy: reconstructing the common foreign and security policy of the European Union
The dismal history of European foreign policy co-operation has traditionally been told by realists and intergovernmentalists. Hence, a preliminary introduction of constructivism to the study of political co-operation history leads to highly unorthodox conclusions. Adopting a sociological vocabulary for the difficult task of first order theory, constructivism points to a symbolic content in European political cooperation that is not captured by traditional statist approaches and which, crucially, is wholly constitutive of co-operation. Moreover, constructivism supplies dubious and controversially optimistic conclusions to the integration within present-day common foreign and security policy.
Keywords: COMMON FOREIGN AND SECURITY POLICY; CONSTRUCTIVISM; DIPLOMATIC INTERACTION; EUROPEAN INTEGRATION; PHENOMENOLOGY; SYMBOLIC INTERACTIONISM
Document Type: Research Article
Publication date: 01 December 1999
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