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.

Provides evidence on the increasing role of Brussels-based institutions in strategy-making Addresses a gap in the new intergovernmentalism, never previously applied to the field of external action Interacts with prominent debates in European integration and EU external action

Autorentext

Pol Morillas is Director of CIDOB, the Barcelona Centre for International Affairs. He is also Associate Lecturer at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain.

Inhalt

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.