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Further Readings

CFSP in general

Algieri, Franco (2020): Die Gemeinsame Außen-und Sicherheitspolitik als Spiegelbild eines Integrationsprozesses im Wandel. In: Handbuch Europäische Union: Springer, S. 951–974.

Barbé, Esther; Morillas, Pol (2019): The EU global strategy: the dynamics of a more politicized and politically integrated foreign policy. In: Cambridge Review of International Affairs 32 (6), S. 753–770. DOI: 10.1080/09557571.2019.1588227.

Blockmans, Steven; Koutrakos, Panos (Hg.) (2018) Research handbook on the EU’s common foreign and security policy. (Research Handbooks in European Law series), Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, MA, USA

Cremona, M. (2018): The position of CFSP/CSDP in the EU's constitutional architecture. In: Research Handbook on the EU's Common Foreign and Security Policy, S. 5–21.

Ekengren, Hollis, Ekengren, Hollis; Ekengren, Magnus (2019): Explaining the European Union's Security Role in Practice. In: Journal of common market studies 58 (3), S. 616–635.

Tonra, B., & Christiansen, T. (Eds.). (2018). Rethinking European Union Foreign Policy. Manchester, England: Manchester University Press.

Institutional Challenges and Reforms

Aggestam, Bicchi, Aggestam, Bicchi; Aggestam, Lisbeth; Göteborgs universitet (2019): New Directions in EU Foreign Policy Governance: Cross‐loading, Leadership and Informal Groupings. In: Journal of common market studies 57 (3), S. 515–532.

Andrade, P. G. (2018): EU external competences in the field of migration: How to act externally when thinking internally. In: Common market law review 55 (1), S. 157–200.

Angelucci, Isernia, Angelucci, Isernia; Angelucci, Davide (2019): Politicization and security policy: Parties, voters and the European Common Security and Defense Policy. In: European Union politics 21 (1), 146511651985119-86a

Bassiri Tabrizi, Aniseh (2018): Informal Groups of States: A Growing Role in EU Foreign Policy After Brexit? In: The RUSI Journal 163 (4), S. 62–70. DOI: 10.1080/03071847.2018.1522046.

Bendiek, Annegret; Institut français des relations internationales (2019): Democratization first the community method in CFSP as a precondition for a European defence policy.

Bergmann, Julian (2019): Neofunctionalism and EU external policy integration: the case of capacity building in support of security and development (CBSD). In: Journal of European public policy 26 (9), S. 1253–1272. DOI: 10.1080/13501763.2018.1526204.

Bergmann, Niemann, Bergmann, Niemann; Bergmann, Julian (2018): From Neo‐Functional Peace to a Logic of Spillover in EU External Policy: A Response to Visoka and Doyle. In: Journal of common market studies 56 (2), S. 420–438.

Cardwell, Paul James; Jančić, Davor (2019): The European Parliament and development cooperation: democratic participation in the ‘low politics’ of EU external relations. In: Journal of European Integration 41 (3), S. 365–381. DOI: 10.1080/07036337.2019.1599369.

Dijkstra, H.; van Elsuwege, P. (2018): Representing the EU in the area of CFSP: Legal and political dynamics. In: Research Handbook on the EU's Common Foreign and Security Policy, S. 44–64.

Floyd, Rita (2019): Collective securitisation in the EU: normative dimensions. In: West European Politics 42 (2), S. 391–412. DOI: 10.1080/01402382.2018.1510200.

Cross, M.K.D. (2018): Secrecy and the making of CFSP. In: West European Politics 41 (4), S. 914–932. DOI: 10.1080/01402382.2018.1435088.

Häge, Frank M. (2020): Allocating political attention in the EU’s foreign and security policy: The effect of supranational agenda-setters. In: European Union politics 21 (4), S. 634–656.

Herranz-Surrallés, Anna (2019): Paradoxes of parliamentarization in European security and defence: when politicization and integration undercut parliamentary capital. In: Journal of European Integration 41 (1), S. 29–45. DOI: 10.1080/07036337.2018.1551388.

Hillion, C.; Wessel, R. A. (2018): 'The Good, the Bad and the Ugly': Three levels of judicial control over the CFSP. In: Research Handbook on the EU's Common Foreign and Security Policy, S. 65–87.

Koutrakos, P. (2018): The nexus between CFSP/CSDP and the area of freedom, security and justice. In: Research Handbook on the EU's Common Foreign and Security Policy, S. 296–311.

Lonardo, Luigi (2018): Common Foreign and Security Policy and the EU’s external action objectives: an analysis of Article 21 of the Treaty on the European Union. In: European constitutional law review 14 (3), S. 584–608

Michalski, Danielson, Michalski, Danielson; Michalski, Anna (2019): Overcoming Dissent: Socialization in the EU's Political and Security Committee in a Context of Crises. In: Journal of common market studies 58 (2), S. 328–344.

Morillas, Pol (2020): Autonomy in intergovernmentalism: the role of de novo bodies in external action during the making of the EU Global Strategy. In: Journal of European Integration 42 (2), S. 231–246. DOI: 10.1080/07036337.2019.1666116.

Øhrgaard, J. C. (2018): International relations or European integration: Is the CFSP sui generis? In: Rethinking European Union Foreign Policy, S. 26–44.

Raube, K.; Fonck, D. (2018): Transnational parliamentarism and the dynamics of the IPC CFSP/CSDP: Policy-making, accountability and cooperation. In: Perspectives on Federalism 10 (3), E137-E154. DOI: 10.2478/pof-2018-0034.

Riddervold, M.; Trondal, J. (2020): The Commission’s informal agenda-setting in the CFSP. Agenda leadership, coalition-building, and community framing. In: Comparative European Politics. DOI: 10.1057/s41295-020-00218-1.

Rieker, Pernille; Blockmans, Steven (2019): Plugging the capability-expectations gap: towards effective, comprehensive and conflict-sensitive EU crisis response? In: European Security 28 (1), S. 1–21. DOI: 10.1080/09662839.2018.1562444.

Rosén, Guri (2018): Contestation and co-optation: why secrecy in EU external relations varies. In: West European Politics 41 (4), S. 933–957. DOI: 10.1080/01402382.2017.1413217.

Saygin, D. (2020): A new step in the european union: Pesco and its future. In: Future of The European Union Integration, S. 65–74.

Schade, Daniel (2019): Parlamentarische Kontrolle durch Vernetzung? Eine kritische Analyse der Rolle der Interparlamentarischen Konferenz für die GASP/GSVP. In: Integration 42 (2), S. 118–133.

Sellier, Elodie (2018): Small steps towards a comprehensive approach after Lisbon. In: New journal of European criminal law 9 (1), S. 109–137.

Salmon, T. C. (2019): The EU and CFSP: Gaps between intentions and outcomes. In: From Vision to Reality: Implementing Europe's New Security Order, S. 59–78.

Sjursen, Helene (2018): The legitimacy of European Union foreign policy. In: Global Affairs 4 (2-3), S. 253–264. DOI: 10.1080/23340460.2018.1532308.

Tonra, Ben (2018): Legitimacy and EU security and defence policy: the chimera of a simulacrum (part of the collection “Understanding legitimacy in EU foreign policy”). In: Global Affairs 4 (2-3), S. 265–275. DOI: 10.1080/23340460.2018.1532306.

Amadio Viceré, Maria Giulia; Tercovich, Giulia; Carta, Caterina (2020): The post-Lisbon high representatives: an introduction. In: European Security 29 (3), S. 259–274. DOI: 10.1080/09662839.2020.1798409.

Bremberg, Niklas (2020): From “partnership” to “principled pragmatism”: tracing the discursive practices of the High Representatives in the EU’s relations with the Southern Mediterranean. In: European Security 29 (3), S. 359–375. DOI: 10.1080/09662839.2020.1798408.

Calcara, Antonio (2020): The hybrid role of the High Representative in the security and defence field: more in 10 months than in the 10 years? In: European Security 29 (3), S. 376–395. DOI: 10.1080/09662839.2020.1798406.

Koops, Joachim A.; Tercovich, Giulia (2020): Shaping the European External Action Service and its post-Lisbon crisis management structures: an assessment of the EU High Representatives’ political leadership. In: European Security 29 (3), S. 275–300. DOI: 10.1080/09662839.2020.1798410.

Maurer, Heidi; Morgenstern-Pomorski, Jost-Henrik (2018): The quest for throughput legitimacy: the EEAS, EU delegations and the contested structures of European diplomacy. In: Global Affairs 4 (2-3), S. 305–316. DOI: 10.1080/23340460.2018.1535252.

Pedi, R. (2019): The (Small) State of the Union: Assessing the EU's ability to implement its global strategy. In: New Perspectives 27 (1), S. 43–72. DOI: 10.1177/2336825x1902700103.

Sellier, E. (2018): The European External Action Service, Counterterrorism and the Imperative of Coherence. In: International Spectator 53 (4), S. 129–151. DOI: 10.1080/03932729.2018.1504189.

Tonra, Ben (2019): What role for the high representative post-2019? In: Global Affairs 5 (4-5), S. 287–293. DOI: 10.1080/23340460.2019.1691464.

Weilandt, Ragnar (2019): Will Brexit Change the EU’s Foreign Policy? In: Survival 61 (2), S. 143–166. DOI: 10.1080/00396338.2019.1589093.

Instruments

Basov, F. A. (2018): Anti-Russian sanctions as a test for common foreign policy of the european union. In: World Economy and International Relations 62 (10), S. 55–63. DOI: 10.20542/0131-2227-2018-62-10-55-63.

Fedorov, M. (2018): EU and crisis management: Adaptation to new challenges. In: Sovremennaya Evropa (5), S. 82–89. DOI: 10.15211/soveurope520188289. Research Handbook on the EU's Common Foreign and Security Policy (2018).

Ferrero-Turrión, Ruth (2020): EU sanctions against Russia in the context of the Ukrainian conflict. In: Revista CIDOB d'afers internacionals (125), S. 187–208. From Vision to Reality: Implementing Europe's New Security Order (2019).

Fürrutter, Martina (2020): The transnationalized reality of EU sanctioning: a new research agenda beyond the study of effective economic sanctions. In: Journal of European public policy 27 (10), S. 1585–1597. DOI: 10.1080/13501763.2019.1678661.

Giumelli, Francesco; Hoffmann, Fabian; Książczaková, Anna (2020): The when, what, where and why of European Union sanctions. In: European Security, S. 1–23. DOI: 10.1080/09662839.2020.1797685

Hellquist, Elin (2019): Ostracism and the EU’s contradictory approach to sanctions at home and abroad. In: Contemporary Politics 25 (4), S. 393–418. DOI: 10.1080/13569775.2018.1553083.

Palm, Trineke; Crum, Ben (2019): Military operations and the EU’s identity as an international security actor. In: European Security 28 (4), S. 513–534. DOI: 10.1080/09662839.2019.1667769.

Portela, Clara; Pospieszna, Paulina; Skrzypczyńska, Joanna; Walentek, Dawid (2020): Consensus against all odds: explaining the persistence of EU sanctions on Russia. In: Journal of European Integration, S. 1–17. DOI: 10.1080/07036337.2020.1803854.

Szép, Viktor (2020): New intergovernmentalism meets EU sanctions policy: the European Council orchestrates the restrictive measures imposed against Russia. In: Journal of European Integration 42 (6), S. 855–871. DOI: 10.1080/07036337.2019.1688316.

Walch, Ulrike (2020): Der Handlungsrahmen der Gemeinsamen Sicherheits-und Verteidigungspolitik der Europäischen Union und ihre zivilen und militärischen Instrumente/eingereicht von Ulrike Walch. Universität Linz.

Broberg, M. (2018): EU development cooperation and the CFSP: Mutual encroachment? In: Research Handbook on the EU's Common Foreign and Security Policy, S. 254–275.

Cañamares, M. E. (2018): The CFSP-humanitarian aid nexus. In: Research Handbook on the EU's Common Foreign and Security Policy, S. 276–295.

Cardwell, Paul James; Jančić, Davor (2019): The European Parliament and development cooperation: democratic participation in the ‘low politics’ of EU external relations. In: Journal of European Integration 41 (3), S. 365–381. DOI: 10.1080/07036337.2019.1599369.

Lonardo, Luigi (2020): European Union’s Banking Diplomacy Law: A Legal Fragment of EU’s Foreign Affairs. In: European foreign affairs review 25 (1), S. 23–40.

Ott, A.; van der Loo, G. (2018): The nexus between the CCP and the CFSP: Achiev-ing foreign policy goals through trade restrictions and market access. In: Research Handbook on the EU's Common Foreign and Security Policy, S. 230–253.

Pérez de las Heras, Beatriz (2020): Climate security in the European Union’s foreign policy: addressing the responsibility to prepare for conflict prevention. In: Journal of Contemporary European Studies 28 (3), S. 335–347. DOI: 10.1080/14782804.2020.1731438.

Renard, T. (2018): EU cyber partnerships: assessing the EU strategic partnerships with third countries in the cyber domain. In: European Politics and Society 19 (3), S. 321–337. DOI: 10.1080/23745118.2018.1430720.

Pilehroud, A. S. (2019): The position of human rights issue in the EU's foreign policy towards I.R. Of Iran. In: Human Rights 14 (1), S. 73–99. DOI: 10.22096/hr.2019.102929.1091.

Strategic Orientation

Strategic Orientation in General

Annen, N. (2020): A strong and united Europe in the common foreign and security policy. In: New Perspectives 28 (3), S. 265–269. DOI: 10.1177/2336825X20934969.

Baciu, C.-A.; Friede, A. M. (2020): The EU’s CFSP/CSDP in 2030: Towards an alternative vision of power? In: New Perspectives 28 (3), S. 398–412. DOI: 10.1177/2336825X20935245.

Buhari Gulmez, Didem; Baris Gulmez, Seckin (2020): Towards an autonomous European defense? A comparative analysis of French, Polish and German perspectives in the post-Brexit era. In: Global Affairs 6 (2), S. 185–202. DOI: 10.1080/23340460.2020.1776628.

Cottey, Andrew (2019): A strategic Europe. In: Journal of common market studies 58 (2), S. 276–291.

Recchia, Stefano (2020) : A legitimate sphere of influence: Understanding France’s turn to multilateralism in Africa. In: Journal of Strategic Studies 43 (4), S. 508–533. DOI: 10.1080/01402390.2020.1733985.

Smith, Michael E. (2018): Transatlantic security relations since the European security strategy: what role for the EU in its pursuit of strategic autonomy? In: Journal of European Integration 40 (5), S. 605–620. DOI: 10.1080/07036337.2018.1488840.

Weitershausen, Inez von; Schäfer, David; Wessels, Wolfgang (2020): A ‘Primus Inter Pares’ in EU Foreign Policy? – German Leadership in the European Council during the Libyan and Ukrainian Crises. In: German Politics 29 (1), S. 42–58. DOI: 10.1080/09644008.2019.1583328.

Wright, Nicholas (2018): No Longer the Elephant Outside the Room: Why the Ukraine Crisis Reflects a Deeper Shift Towards German Leadership of European Foreign Policy. In: German Politics 27 (4), S. 479–497. DOI: 10.1080/09644008.2018.1458094.

Zwolski, Kamil (2020): Diversified in unity: the agenda for the geopolitical European Commission. In: Global Affairs, S. 1–17. DOI: 10.1080/23340460.2020.1834427.

European Neighborhood

Blockmans, S. (2018): European neighbourhood policy: CFSP in disguise. In: Research Handbook on the EU's Common Foreign and Security Policy, S. 312–330.

Gashi, Krenar (2020): Simulated Power and the Power of Simulations: The European Union in the Dialogue between Kosovo and Serbia. In: Journal of common market studies.

Härtel, A. (2019): The EU member states and the crisis in Ukraine: Towards an eclectic explanation. In: Romanian journal of European affairs 19 (2), S. 87–106.

Kavalski, Kavalski, Cho, Cho, Kavalski, Kavalski, Cho, Cho, , Chul, Chul; Kavalski, Emilian (2018): The European Union in Central Eurasia: still searching for strategy. In: Asia Europe journal 16 (1), S. 51–63.

Maass, Anna-Sophie (2020): The Actorness of the EU’s State-Building in Ukraine - Before and after Crimea. In: Geopolitics 25 (2), S. 387–406. DOI: 10.1080/14650045.2018.1559149.

Mason, R. (2018): The Syria conflict and the euro-med refugee crisis: An opportunity to enhance the common foreign and security policy? In: European foreign affairs review 23 (1), S. 81–95.

Mnatsakanyan, Irena (2018): THE QUEST FOR COHERENCE IN EU CRISIS MANAGEMENT IN THE SOUTH CAUCASUS: THE CASE OF SOUTH OSSETIA. In: Europolity: continuity and change in European governance 12 (2), S. 87–114.

The EU and Further Third Countries

Casarini, Nicola (2020): Rising to the Challenge: Europe’s Security Policy in East Asia amid US-China Rivalry. In: The International Spectator 55 (1), S. 78–92. DOI: 10.1080/03932729.2020.1712133.

Churchill, Robin (2018): The European Union as an Actor in the Law of the Sea, with Particular Reference to the Arctic. In: The International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law 33 (2), S. 290–323.

Millard, A. S.; Yi, C.-D. (2018): The European Union’s common foreign and security policy reforms and its implications for Northeast Asia. In: Asia Europe journal 16 (4), S. 375–394. DOI: 10.1007/s10308-018-0515-8.

Park, Sunghoon (2019): EU’s strategic partnership with Asian countries: an introductory article for the special issue. In: Asia Europe journal 17 (3), S. 257–263.

Song, Weiqing; Hall, Rodney Bruce (2019): European Union’s construction of international identity via strategic partnerships: associating and social distancing. In: Contemporary Politics 25 (2), S. 172–189. DOI: 10.1080/13569775.2018.1497463.

Member States' Perspective

Agius, C. (2018): Reinventing neutrality - the case of Austria, Finland and Sweden and the European union. In: Europe: Rethinking the Boundaries, S. 155–173.

Hettyey, András (2020): The Europeanization of Hungarian foreign policy and the Hungarization of European foreign policy, 2010-18. In: Journal of Contemporary European Studies, S. 1–14. DOI: 10.1080/14782804.2020.1824895.

Ioakimidis, P. C. (2019): The Europeanisation of Greece’s foreign policy: Progress and problems. In: Contemporary Greece and Europe, S. 359–372.

Molnár, Tamás Levente (2020): The security perception and security policy of Austria, 1989–2017. In: Defense & Security Analysis, S. 1–14. DOI: 10.1080/14751798.2020.1831234.

Kříž, Zdeněk; Brajerčíková, Stanislava; Urbanovská, Jana (2018): Defense Co-Operation Between Germany and the Visegrad Countries. In: The Journal of Slavic Military Studies 31 (3), S. 354–371. DOI: 10.1080/13518046.2018.1487203.

Palczewska, Milena (2020): The security perception and security policy of Poland, 1989–2017. In: Defense & Security Analysis, S. 1–16. DOI: 10.1080/14751798.2020.1831237.

Skolimowska, A. (2018): The future of the Normative Power Europe concept from the Visegrad group's perspective. In: Online Journal Modelling the New Europe (26), S. 124–143. DOI: 10.24193/OJMNE.2018.26.09.

Szerencsés, László (2020): Security perception in Croatia since the declaration of independence. In: Defense & Security Analysis, S. 1–15. DOI: 10.1080/14751798.2020.1831241.

Wrange, Jana; Bengtsson, Rikard (2019): Internal and external perceptions of small state security: the case of Estonia. In: European Security 28 (4), S. 449–472. DOI: 10.1080/09662839.2019.1665517.

Aggestam, L.; Hyde-Price, A. (2020): Learning to Lead? Germany and the Leadership Paradox in EU Foreign Policy. In: German Politics 29 (1), S. 8–24. DOI: 10.1080/09644008.2019.1601177.

Daehnhardt, Patricia (2018): German Foreign Policy, the Ukraine Crisis and the Euro-Atlantic Order: Assessing the Dynamics of Change. In: German Politics 27 (4), S. 516–538. DOI: 10.1080/09644008.2018.1448386.

Ewers-Peters, Nele Marianne (2020): Germany Going ‘Midstream’: Balancing vs Leadership in EU-NATO Cooperation. In: German Politics, S. 1–18. DOI: 10.1080/09644008.2020.1826439.

Fix, Liana (2018): The Different ‘Shades’ of German Power: Germany and EU Foreign Policy during the Ukraine Conflict. In: German Politics 27 (4), S. 498–515. DOI: 10.1080/09644008.2018.1448789.

Helwig, N. (2020): Germany in European Diplomacy: Minilateralism as a Tool for Leadership. In: German Politics 29 (1), S. 25–41. DOI: 10.1080/09644008.2018.1563891.

Helwig, Niklas; Siddi, Marco (2020): German Leadership in the Foreign and Security Policy of the European Union. In: German Politics 29 (1), S. 1–7. DOI: 10.1080/09644008.2020.1719073.

Hofmann, Stephanie C. (2019): Beyond Culture and Power: The Role of Party Ideologies in German Foreign and Security Policy. In: German Politics, S. 1–21. DOI: 10.1080/09644008.2019.1611783.