Podejmowanie decyzji w obszarze Wspólnej Polityki Zagranicznej i Bezpieczeństwa Unii Europejskiej z perspektywy konstruktywizmu społecznego
Decision-making in the area of ​​the Common Foreign and Security Policy of the European Union from the perspective of social constructivism

Summary/Abstract: Traditional analyses of European Union’s Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) characterize it as an intergovernmental regime based on the lowest common denominator politics. This leads to dominant perspective that CFSP decision -making process can be describe in terms of bargaining, realization of states interests and “culture of veto”. The aim of this article is to provide an alternative, namely constructivist, approach to the study of the CFSP. For this purpose, the first part of the article deals with the fundamental assumptions of this perspective in the light of Lakatosian methodology of research programmes. The second part empirically examines above -minded assumptions on the ground of CFSP decision -making by showing how phenomena such as consensus culture, coordination reflex, multiple embeddedness, logic of argumentation or intrainstitutional rivalry shape different image of the old second pillar. This article argues that adopting a sociological vocabulary to CFSP opens up new and crucial vistas for its analysis which cannot be understand and explored by traditional approaches.

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