ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the last years have been a crucial phase for the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP). The institutional dimension of CFSP is related to the set of rules, procedures, bodies and the administrative infrastructure designed to make Europe's foreign policy work. The social dimension of CFSP focuses on the relationship among its actors and institutions at different levels, trying to grasp the socialising effects which are in play via processes of Europeanization and Brusselization. The Union Minister of Foreign Affairs as one of the major innovations of the institutional set up of CFSP would have been subject to a so called double hat. The social dimension of CFSP seems to be an issue which has attracted rather little interest among policy-makers in Brussels, although it acquires an enormous amount of importance. It assume that the basic features of CFSP will probably remain intact, and no revolutionary change is to be expected.
