ABSTRACT
This chapter examines to what degree national European foreign policies in the sensitive area of national defence are, nevertheless, determined by the pressures and interactions which characterize policy making within the multilevel European foreign policy network. It analyses the cancellation of the British tactical air-to-surface missile project in 1993. Five indicators used to evaluate the hypotheses proposed by multilevel network theory are: the frequency of preference changes with rising degrees of pressure, the distribution of pressure, change of preferences and blocked preference changes, the average pressure in each behavioural category and the timing of the preference changes. This chapter draws conclusions concerning the new insights provided by multilevel network theory into the role of the multilevel European foreign policy network in the making of national defence policy. The chapter reveals the national, transnational and international extent of the coalition. It illustrates the preference change among officials in the British MoD who were linked transnationally to their NATO colleagues.
