Idiosyncrasies of the European Leadership’s Decision Regarding the European Green Deal
Idiosyncrasies of the European Leadership’s Decision Regarding the European Green Deal

Summary/Abstract: The implementation of foreign policy is a form of strategic and dialectical interaction between actors and the foreign policy environment, the success of any implementation of foreign policy depending not only on clearly-defined objectives or the choice of instruments, but also on the interaction between the actor and the context in which the strategy is positioned or the actor’s ability to adapt to unforeseen circumstances. The way decisions are made can give one form or another to a possible choice. From this perspective, this paper aims to analyze the elements of subjectivity that influenced the decision makers involved in the design of the European Green Deal and, at the same time, those who acted throughout the decision-making process, the analyzed political decision maker being the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen. To this end, we have resorted to qualitative methodology instruments such as document analysis and discourse analysis. Foreign policy decisions are characterized by the stakes involved, high uncertainty and substantial risk. To decipher these actions, it is useful to know what is behind a decision, what drives the action and the event. This is where idiosyncrasies come into play—an important factor that acts in foreign policy decisions. An actor can come up with a different outcome depending on how the decision is made—some decisions are carefully calculated, while others are intuitive.

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