A novel explanation of how EU member states overcome their divergent preferences to reach agreement on common foreign policies, with fourteen in-depth case studies covering diplomatic and security issues, enlargement, trade, development and environmental protection.

A novel explanation and multiple case studies on how EU member states overcome their divergent preferences to reach agreement on common foreign policies

The Challenge of Making EU Foreign Policy; D.C.Thomas Explaining EU Foreign Policy: Normative Institutionalism and Alternative Approaches; D.C.Thomas CASE STUDIES EU Policy on Ukraine during and since the Orange Revolution: 'A door neither closed nor open'; R.Youngs EU Policy on the International Criminal Court: Institutional Contexts and Policy Compromises; D.C.Thomas EU Policy on the Iraq War and its Aftermath: The Collapse and Revival of Consensus-Based Foreign Policy; J.Lewis EU Decision-making on Operation Artemis: Consensus Building in CSDP; S.Duke EU Membership Negotiations with Turkey: Entrapped Again; F.Schimmelfennig EU Policy on Economic Partnership Agreements: Trade... and Aid?; O.Elgstrom EU Policy on Global Climate Change: The Negotiation of Burden-Sharing; J.Vogler CONCLUSIONS Normative Institutionalism and EU Foreign Policy in Comparative Perspective; F.Schimmelfennig & D.C.Thomas Norms and All That: Progress in EU Foreign Policy Research; T.Risse Interests, Power and the EU's Role in International Security: A Skeptical Response to Normative Institutionalism; A.Menon Norms, Institutions and EU Foreign Policy: Advancing the Research Programme; M.E.Smith