Közös hang a világpolitikában: az EU külpolitikájának elméleti megközelítései
Consensus in global politics: theoretical approaches to EU foreign policy

Summary/Abstract: The Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) has been one of the favourite EU policy areas for political science and has been investigated from several perspectives. This study primarily aims at fi nding theoretical answers to whether the twenty-eight member states can agree on joint actions and whether they can come up with decisions that do not merely represent the lowest common denominator. The traditional theories of International Relations (IR) have primarily given systemic answers, whereas analysts examining the CFSP “more closely” have mainly focused on the socialization of offi cials working in EU foreign policy. The purpose of this review article cannot be to fully reject the assumptions of neorealism; however, it aims at showing that, by changing the level of analysis, the intensifi cation of cooperation in high politics can be explained despite the intergovernmental nature of the CFSP.

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