Gaps in EU Foreign Policy

Offers new way of looking at the role of theories on European foreign policy
Analyses the important role of the gap concept in theories on European foreign policy including the Capability-Expectations Gap
Addresses the broader academic debate about how theories on European integration affect the analysis of the EU

Offers new way of looking at the role of theories on European foreign policy Analyses the important role of the gap concept in theories on European foreign policy including the Capability-Expectations Gap Addresses the broader academic debate about how theories on European integration affect the analysis of the EU

Autorentext

Henrik Larsen is Professor MSO and holds the Jean Monnet Chair in European Foreign and Security Policy Integration in the Department of Political Science at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. His previous books include Discourse Analysis and Foreign Policy: France, Britain and Europe (1997), The ESDP and the Nordic Countries (with N. Græger and H. Ojanen, 2002) and Analysing the Foreign Policy of Small States in the EU: the Case of Denmark (2005).

Zusammenfassung
Through examples from relevant literature, Larsen not only demonstrates how this concept sets up standards for the EU as a foreign policy actor (that are not met by most other international actors) but also shows how this curtails analysis of EU foreign policy.

Inhalt

1. Introduction.- 2.The Performativity of Theories.- 3. The Capability-Expectation Gap: A Double Reading.- 4. The Performativity of the Capability-Expectations Gap.- 5. Implications of the Gap Discourse for the Study of (European) Foreign Policy and European Studies.