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The European Union is developing increasingly state-like features, expanding its normative influence into policy areas with both shared and exclusive Member State competences. One such area is foreign policy, where its formal intergovernmental arrangements are being affected by an assertive Commission. In this context, the setting, formulation, and implementation of the EU’s common foreign policies are being rapidly transformed by informal policymaking mechanisms. This occurs across a variety of policy issues, including sanctions, trade, defense, migration, energy security, climate action, enlargement, etc. This complexity underscores the need to analyze and track ongoing changes in the EU’s policy processes to understand how it addresses external challenges and threats.
This panel sets to explore this relevant and contemporary problematic by receiving papers that deal with, among other topics, (1) the current policy processes of the Common Foreign and Security Policy, (2) the relationship between the several EU institutions and Member States on issues of external policy, (3) the role of specific actors and institutions in shaping the EU’s policy responses to external events, (4) the normative implications for democratic governance of informal decision- making within the EU’s foreign policy, and (5) the theoretical implications of the changing panorama of EU foreign policymaking for European studies, public policy, and foreign policy analysis theories. This list is not exhaustive, and scholars working on adjacent issues are encouraged to submit their proposals for consideration as well. Similarly, the panel proposes presenting a wide range of perspectives, including on policy issues and geographic target areas. In this sense, submissions by non-EU researchers are more than welcome.