Foreign Policy

Abstract

The concept of “Europeanization” is of very recent vintage in the study of the domestic impact of European regional integration, in particular the impact of the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP), on national foreign policies. Other concepts that have been applied to the study of national foreign policies within the context of Europe — such as “Brusselsization” and “Europeification” (Allen 1998; Mueller-Brandeck-Bocquet 2002; Andersen and Eliasen 1995) describe and study the top-down impact of the EU/CFSP as a strictly Pillar II (i.e. intergovernmental) phenomenon in national foreign policy making. They focus on CFSP decisions as compromises between national foreign policies of member states rather than binding decisions from a supranational authority. They are less concerned with the interactive, bottom-up phenomenon of national inputs in CFSP; and the informal socialization of norms — both core research questions in foreign policy Europeanization.