IngentaConnect The framing of European foreign and security policy: towards a po...

Author: Smith M.¹

Source: Journal of European Public Policy, Volume 10, Number 4, August 2003 , pp. 556-575(20)

Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group

Abstract:

This article explores the evolution of the common foreign and security policy (CFSP) and the common European security and defence policy (CESDP), taken to represent European foreign and security policy, with an emphasis on the continuous reframing of policy within a changing "foreign policy space'. Having identified the key phases in the evolution of this European foreign policy space, the article then pursues two general aims: first, to establish how far this evolution reflects the interaction of ideas, institutions and policies; second, to assess the significance of a number of key "drivers' common to many areas of policy within the EU - the search for legitimacy, the preferences of member states and the desire for environmental stabilization. On the basis of this exploration, the article argues that it is possible to discern the emergence of a "post-modern' or " extra-national' foreign policy in the EU, which has significant echoes of policy- making in other areas of EU activity.

Keywords: CESDP; CFSP; foreign policy; ideas; institutions

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.1080/1350176032000101253

Affiliations: 1: Department of European and International Studies, Loughborough University, Loughborough LE11 3TU, UK

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The framing of European foreign and security policy: towards a post-modern policy framework?