ABSTRACT

This book examines lobbying in EU foreign policy-making and the activities of non-state actors (NSAs), focusing on EU foreign policy on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It sheds light on the interactions between the EU and NSAs as well as the ways in which NSAs attempt to shape EU foreign policies. By analysing issues that have not yet received systematic attention in the literature, this book offers new insights into lobbying in EU foreign policy, EU relations surrounding the conflict and the EU’s broader role in the peace process.

The book will be of key interest to scholars and students of political science, international relations, EU politics, EU foreign policy-making, Middle East studies and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

chapter |7 pages

Introduction

‘Embedded' lobbying in EU foreign policy

chapter |22 pages

The EU and the Israeli–Palestinian conflict

An overview of declarations, policies and actors

chapter |23 pages

Trade relations between the EU and Israel

Lobbying on the territorial scope of the EU–Israel Association Agreement

chapter |22 pages

The Goldstone Report

To endorse or not to endorse it?

chapter |13 pages

Conclusions