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.
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 Citation(2003); Duke and Vanhoonacker Citation(2006); Juncos and Reynolds Citation(2007); Christiansen and Vanhoonacker Citation(2008); Howorth Citation(2010).
Amongst the many relevant works are Bohman Citation(1999); Majone Citation(2005); Pollack Citation(2003); Eriksen Citation(2009); Keohane et al. Citation(2009); Brunkhorst Citation(2011); Forst and Schmalz-Bruns Citation(2011); Fossum and Menéndez (Citation2011); as well as Eriksen Citation(2011) and Lord (2011).