ABSTRACT
How should one approach and account for European foreign policy? This is a question that has attracted an increasing amount of attention among scholars and policy-makers alike in recent years. At its core is the expanding and deepening European integration, and in particular the development of the CFSP and the CSDP. These twin policies show how European integration has spilled over into the most sensitive field of state sovereignty. European foreign and security policy is no longer based on individual states and inter-state cooperation, but rests on a progressively robust form of multi-level governance. The growth of this complex and multilayered foreign policy system is also challenging as far as conventional foreign policy analysis is concerned – in particular with regard to its state-centric nature.
