From Common Defence to Comprehensive Security Towards the Europeanisation of French Foreign and Security Policy?
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Working Paper, NUPI nr 691. NUPI, 2005Sammendrag
This article looks at the relationship between European integration and
national foreign and security policy - specifically, how and to what extent the development
of a specifically European (EU) foreign and security policy leads to adaptation and change
in national foreign and security policy. The theoretical point of departure is an interest in
national changes in response to EU norms. It will be argued that national approaches tend to
adapt to norms defined by a community to which they are closely linked; that this adaptation
takes place over time, through a socialisation process; and that it may also, in the end,
lead to changes in national identity. This argument challenges the common assumption of IR
theory that national identities and/or interests are fixed and independent of structural factors
like international norms and values. The empirical focus is on changes in French foreign
and security policy since the early 1990s. How and to what extent has the dominant French
national discourse on foreign and security policy changed since the early 1990s? And if so,
how are these changes related to the European integration process in general, and to the
development of a European foreign and security dimension in particular?
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