The establishment of the European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) in 1999 has led to
the creation of a whole range of bureaucratic bodies in Brussels and the national capitals …

The status of democracy in European foreign and security policy is increasingly questioned.
In order to identify if there is something at the European Union (EU) level that requires …

The role of officials from the working groups and the Council Secretariat dealing with
European Union (EU) external relations has grown in recent years as a result of the increase …

Conditionality, or the use of political and economic criteria in the attribution of development
aid, is generally considered to be a phenomenon both relatively new to the European …

From the beginning of the 1990s, when the dissolution of the Socialist Federal Republic of
Yugoslavia brought war back to the European continent, the development of the EU's foreign …

This article argues that the study of EU foreign and security policy has been hampered by its
conceptualization of the sovereign state. Realist and constructivist scholars share Stanley …

Due to its indirect role in the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP), the European
Commission seems to be a marginal actor in European security governance. As a result …

EU foreign and defence policy is largely formulated in the working parties and committees of
the Council of the EU and the vast majority of decisions in this field are made by the national …

Abstract The Council Secretariat General has emerged as one of the institutional winners of
the dynamic development of the EU's foreign and security policy, especially in the field of …

This article examines the impact of the 2004 and 2007 enlargements on CFSP committees. It
aims to determine in which manner enlargement has affected the deliberative nature of …