Strategy-Making in the EU, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2019 From Foreign and Security Policy to External Action The European Union in International Affairs Series

This book provides a detailed analysis of the policy-making processes of EU strategies in foreign and security policy and external action. It uses the European Security Strategy and the EU Global Strategy to assess their policy-making dynamics both before and after the Lisbon Treaty. Inter-institutional relations in strategy-making are put into the context of current debates in European integration, questioning the assumption that the EU is a body increasingly ruled by intergovernmentalism - as reflected by the new intergovernmentalism literature. The book also provides a categorisation of EU strategies and considers them as policy-inspiration documents, acting as frameworks for policy-making. This reading of strategies lies behind the analysis of the policy-making processes of the ESS and the EUGS, unpacked into four phases: agenda-setting, policy formulation, policy output and implementation. By looking at the shifting policy-making dynamics from foreign and security policy to external action, the author sheds light on the current shape of EU integration.

1. Chapter 1. Introduction: Strategy-making in the era of intergovernmentalism.- 2. Chapter 2. An ever more intergovernmental EU? From foreign and security policy to external action.- 3. Chapter 3. EU strategies and their purposes.- 4. Chapter 4. The policy-making of the European Security Strategy (2003).- 5. Chapter 5. The policy-making of the European Union Global Strategy (2016).- 6. Chapter 6. Conclusions.