Crisis and change in European Union foreign policy

A framework of EU foreign policy change

Nikki Ikani, Dimitris Papadimitriou

• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN:
  9781526155641
• eBook ISBN:
  9781526155634
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: European Politics
• Index: Social Sciences

How do crises produce changes in specific European Union foreign policy areas, and how should we conceptualise these policy changes?

This book provides a novel analytical framework that serves to investigate the way in which the EU changes its foreign policy after crisis. Ikani adapts the existing theorising of foreign policy change to a single framework applicable to the EU context, providing readers with a toolbox to both explain the process of change and measure the policy change that follows. The framework is developed through an investigation of two important EU foreign policy change episodes, taking place after the Arab uprisings and the Ukraine conflict, and test-driven in three recent cases of EU foreign policy change after crisis.

The volume presents a novel typology of EU foreign policy change, advancing on the fields of foreign policy analysis, public policy studies and International Relations. In doing so, it explains both the decision-making process leading to policy change, and the variation in change outcomes following this process. Further to offering those researching the EU foreign policy response to crisis with timely and empirically rich accounts of five recent change episodes, this book adds to the literature by suggesting two forms of EU foreign policy change, symbolic change and constructive ambiguity, which unlike previously argued form frequent and important outcomes of the decision-making process.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title page
• Series page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Dedication
• Epigraph
• Contents
• List of tables
• List of figures
• Acknowledgements
• List of abbreviations
• Introduction
• 1: An analytical framework for studying EU foreign policy change
• 2: Foreign policy change after the Arab uprisingsThe Neighbourhood Policy revised
• 3: Foreign policy change after the Ukraine crisis Changing the Neighbourhood Policy once more
• 4: Conceptualising EU foreign policy change
• 5: Test-driving the analytical framework
• 6: Conclusion
• Bibliography
• List of interviews
• Index