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ABSTRACT
The Special Issue presents an overview of how and why European Union (EU) foreign policy is contested. Particular attention is given to the EU's inside and outside environment in triggering contestation, as well as to the intergovernmental and supranational dynamics at play. This conclusion brings together insights from the seven contributions to this Special Issue focusing on the causes, modes and effects of contestation across the various clusters of EU foreign policy. Several lessons can be drawn from the contributions for future research on contestation dynamics in EU foreign policy: First, that internal and external contestation can arise from diverse actors and that these internal and external dynamics can be interrelated. Second, that despite the various foreign policy areas being influenced by different dynamics, intergovernmental dynamics were particularly dominant in shaping EU foreign policy.
Acknowledgements
We would like to thank all contributors to this Special Issue. We would also like to thank the anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments as well as the editorial team of Global Affairs for helping to coordinate this Special Issue. We are grateful for reflections and comments at the EWIS conference 2019 and at two COST Action ENTER EU Foreign Policy Facing New Realities (CA17119) workshops on contestation. We would therefore also like to thank the leaders of the Working Group on Contestation, Oriol Costa and Katja Biedenkopf, for convening the productive exchanges which led to this Special Issue.
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Elodie Thevenin
Elodie Thevenin, M.A., is a PhD candidate in Political Science at the Doctoral School in the Social Sciences of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. She also works at the JU Institute of European Studies as a research assistant on the EU Horizon 2020 project “EU Differentiation, Dominance and Democracy (EU3D)”. Her academic interests encompass subjects related to migration, parliamentary discourse and identity. Her doctoral research focuses on the discussion on migration in national parliaments and the European Parliament in relation to the development of European integration. She is a fellow of the Europaeum Scholars Programme (2020/2021).
Lina Liedlbauer
Lina Liedlbauer, M.A., is a research assistant and PhD candidate in the project “Politicising European Security? Processes of Politicisation in Counter-terrorism and Border Security” funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) at the University of Osnabrück. She manages research activities, focusing on the topic of counter-terrorism, counter-radicalization as well as data retention and data protection. Her doctoral research links the role of NGOs to politicization processes in the field of EU security.
Franziska Petri
Franziska Petri, M.A., is a FWO doctoral fellow (2019–2023) at the Leuven International and European Studies, KU Leuven. Her doctoral research focuses on the role of EU Delegations in EU climate and energy diplomacy. Her research interests are European foreign policy, EU climate/energy policy, EU inter-institutional relations, and theorizing (norm) contestation. Her work has been published in the Journal of European Integration, Zeitschrift für Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik and the journal “integration”.