Danish CFSP Policy in the Post-Cold War Period

Abstract

The article examines the issue of whether Danish policy towards the CFSP is in line with the active internationalism that has characterized Danish foreign policy in general in the 1990s. It shows that Danish policy with regard to the CFSP has changed in the post-Cold War period. Denmark has begun to support the construction of the EU as an external political actor. This policy line can be explained by the dominance of a discourse within the Danish political system that views the EU as a central political actor with a role in the field of security. The dominance of this view has meant that the Edinburgh Decision agreement was not a watershed in Danish CFSP policy, although it has prevented Denmark from being part of the political inner circle. Against this background, Denmark has promoted its key foreign policy issues actively in the CFSP, also post 1992.