European Foreign Policy and the European Parliament in the 1990s

An Investigation into the Role and Voting Behaviour of the European Parliament's Political Groups

Donatella M. Viola

• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
• Year: 2019
• eBook ISBN: 9781351787673
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Political Process
• Index: Politics & International Relations

This title was first published in 2000: This book investigates the European Parliament's stance vis-a-vis the 1990-1991 Gulf and 1991-1992 Yugoslav crises. In unveiling the parliamentary multi-faceted view of these events, reference has been made to the positions taken by constituent political groups and their voting behaviour. In particular, the following questions have been addressed: has the European Parliament sought to define and shape a common foreign policy with respect to the above crises? What specific functions have the European Parliament political groups performed? Have political groups succeeded in achieving an internal cohesion? Has the European Parliament overcome divisions among its members through the formation of party coalitions? despite the considerable flow of published material on external relations of the European Union and the European Parliament, virtually no study has explored in-depth the links between these two areas. The purpose of this book is to fill the gap in the existing literature, breaking new ground by combining a qualitative and qualitative analysis of parliamentary behaviour with foreign policy.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Dedication Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Detailed Table of Contents
• List of Tables
• List of Illustrations and Charts
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• List of Abbreviations
• Introduction
• I European Foreign Policy and the European Parliament
• II The Responses of the European Community and the European Parliament to the Gulf Crisis
• III The Role of the Political Groups in Forging the European Parliament’s Stance on the Gulf Crisis
• IV The Responses of the European Community and the European Parliament to the Yugoslav Crisis
• V The Role of the Political Groups in Forging the European Parliament’s Stance on the Yugoslav Crisis
• Conclusion
• Epilogue
• Appendix
• Bibliography