The EU's Common Foreign and Security Policy: the quest for democracy

Abstract

This collection seeks to reorient studies of European foreign and security policy towards the question of democracy. The aim is to blend insights from international relations and democratic theory in order to enhance our understanding of what is at stake.

Keywords:

• Common Foreign and Security Policy
• democracy
• European Union
• global rights

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I wish to record special thanks to Michael Smith of Loughborough University for his important input and advice in the preparation of this collection. I also wish to thank Kathinka Louise Rinvik and Hanna Karv for research assistance and Erik Oddvar Eriksen for comments and advice. Many thanks are also due to the participants at the ARENA Workshop ‘Simply uploading executive power? Democracy and the Common Foreign and Security Policy of the European Union’, Oslo, 7–8 October 2010. This collection is a contribution to the Eurotrans project financed by the Norwegian Research Council. Financial support from the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs is also gratefully acknowledged.

Notes

Federal Constitutional Court's Judgment (GCC) (30 June 2009), 2 BvE 2/08 vom 30.6.2009, para 211, available at http://www.bverfg.de/entscheidungen/es20090630_2bve000208en.html (accessed 21 September 2011).

See, for example, Tonra (2003); Duke and Vanhoonacker (2006); Juncos and Reynolds (2007); Christiansen and Vanhoonacker (2008); Howorth (2010).

Amongst the many relevant works are Bohman (1999); Majone (2005); Pollack (2003); Eriksen (2009); Keohane et al. (2009); Brunkhorst (2011); Forst and Schmalz-Bruns (2011); Fossum and Menéndez (2011); as well as Eriksen (2011) and Lord (2011).