European Foreign Policy and the New Arc of Crisis
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1996
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Haverford College. Department of Political Science
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This paper seeks to underline the changing nature of foreign policy making in the West European context. Focusing on security issues, which represent the most salient foreign policy dilemmas today, the current difficulties in outlining coherent and effective approaches are examined. Through the case study of France's relations with Algeria, it appears that the insistence on the defense of national sovereignty in the area of high politics is increasingly difficult to justify on grounds of empirical success. It is in this context that a trend towards political integration at the European level can be identified. Serving as the first post-Cold War test for European collective foreign policy making, confronting the Yugoslav crisis was supposed to reflect the new status of the European Union (EU) as a major actor in international security. Following this fiasco, one could only conclude that the means for crisis prevention and management in Europe are inadequate. By examining the weaknesses of the existing EU institutions as well as the challenges the EU must overcome in order to achieve efficient foreign policy making, I then identify credible alternative approaches for foreign policy making today.