Member States as Strategy–Maker or Strategy–Taker? Analysing Polish Involvement in the Development of the EU Global Strategy

• Authors: Sus Monika
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The drafting process of the EU Global Strategy published in June 2016 has differed distinctively from the formulation of the European Security Strategy in 2003 mainly because of its consultative character. The coordination of the process was ensured by the High Representative who brokered between interests of individual Member States. Looking through the lens of deliberative intergovernmentalism, the paper examines patterns and channels of the cooperation between Poland and the EEAS throughout the strategy–making process. It attempts to shed light on the officially repeated claims on the Member States’ ownership of the document and their active participation in the consultations. The article argues that only with national diplomacies as strategy–makers, the document would have a chance to enhance the EU’s ’will to project power’ in its neighbourhood and beyond. However, the salience of the new strategy among the high political level in the Member States reveals to be crucial for a sustainable contribution to the deliberative policy formulation.

Keywords

EN

EU Global Strategy; High Representative; Member States; European External Action Service; deliberative intergovernmentalism; EU’s foreign policy

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek
• Journal: Polish Political Science Yearbook
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 45
• Pages: 337–350

Contributors

author

Sus Monika

• Hertie School of Governance
• European University Institute

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Notes

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The author is very grateful to the referees for their helpful comments and wishes to acknowledge the financial support of the National Research Council for this publication (along the project decision: DEC-2013/09/B/HS5/01356).

Identifiers

DOI

10.15804/ppsy2016025