ABSTRACT
This chapter investigates the utility of multilevel network theory for explaining how these international organizations and the relationship with the United States influence European foreign policy making and vice versa. Specifically, it examines the transatlantic community's endorsement of air strikes in Bosnia in 1993. Two factors mean that an analysis of the American and British contributions to the UN Security Council decision to authorize air strikes in Bosnia is especially interesting for the testing of the hypotheses put forward by multilevel network theory. A number of conclusions are suggested by the preceding analysis with regard to the making of European foreign policy within the transatlantic community. This chapter has illustrated the important role played by The North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the United Nations in defining European foreign policies. The chapter thus confirms the contention presented at the beginning of this book that the multilevel European foreign policy network stretches beyond Europe and the European Union.
