Greece and Spain in European Foreign Policy: The Influence of Southern Member States in Common Foreign and Security Policy by Dimitrios Kavakas

Author:Dimitrios Kavakas [Kavakas, Dimitrios]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Political Science, General
ISBN: 9781351808569
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Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2001-12-01T00:00:00+00:00

Differentiation of National Foreign Policy

Both the administrative structure and the policy formation process illustrate the degree of adaptation achieved in the process of national foreign policy-making in Greece and Spain, and its implications on the nature of participation of the two countries in CFSP. The last section of this chapter examines, by means of comparison, the areas where adaptation has not taken place. These are characterised by differentiation from the common European position. The aim of this section is to find out whether and why this differentiation took place and look at the factors that influenced it. The objective is to test the proposition that this differentiation is more likely to occur when there is a low degree of adaptation, and also that a continuing differentiation from the common European position causes the isolation of the Member State and feeds the nationalist elements in its national foreign policy-making. This chapter also looks at the extent to which differentiation in national foreign policy is not necessarily against the common European position, but can exist in areas where there is not enough interest for a common EU response. However, even in these cases differentiation demonstrates a lack of adaptation as well as a lack of potential on behalf of the Member State to influence the development of a common position. In order to distinguish between different issues and the various possible implications for the foreign policy behaviour of the Member State in CFSP, this chapter looks at three groups of issues; those put on the EU agenda by the Member State; those added by other Member States; and issues excluded from the agenda. The latter may be done by the affected Member States or by its fellow-members.

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