Tag: Diplomacy

  • Votes, Vetoes, Values: Foreign Interference, QMV and EU Foreign Policy in a Competitive Age

    Votes, Vetoes, Values: Foreign Interference, QMV and EU Foreign Policy in a Competitive Age

    Abstract In early May 2023, a group of nine European Union countries called for reform of the way the Union takes decisions in its foreign and security policy. Traditionally a field where consensus and unanimity are the norm, pleas in favour of Qualified Majority Voting – where a single state…

  • Humanitarian Diplomacy

    Humanitarian Diplomacy

    Humanitarian diplomacy has emerged as a concept to promote and dissuade certain types of humanitarian action. The concept took hold mainly in the post-Second World War era and the advent of global humanitarianism. It is a distinct form of diplomacy. Governments, international organizations, and non-governmental organizations “conduct” humanitarian diplomacy in…

  • ‘Our Man in Brussels’. The UK and the EEAS: Ambivalence and Influence

    ‘Our Man in Brussels’. The UK and the EEAS: Ambivalence and Influence

    Based on extensive empirical work by a cross-European group of researchers, this book assesses the impact of the creation of the European External Action Service (EEAS) on the national foreign policy-making processes and institutions of the EU member states. As such, the contributions cover both the involvement of the national…

  • The Diplomatic Role of the European Parliament’s Parliamentary Groups

    The Diplomatic Role of the European Parliament’s Parliamentary Groups

    The political groups of the European Parliament (EP) play a diplomatic role in terms of the EP’s legislative powers, their rhetorical role in European Union (EU) foreign policy, and through direct diplomatic action in third countries. It is therefore surprising to observe that the parliamentary diplomacy of the political groups…