ABSTRACT
The central argument in this book is that analyses of state identities can add to our understanding of the Europeanization of foreign and security policy because they enable and constrain the process of change or transformation embedded in the idea of Europeanization. The book starts with a critique of the dominant intergovernmental modes of conceptualizing and analysing European foreign and security policy. Notwithstanding significant variation within realism(s) and neoliberal institutionalism(s), it is argued that these accounts share significant limitations resulting from their narrow view of integration as cooperation between states. For instance, realist-inspired analyses of European security and foreign policy in the 1990s rendered the development of the CFSP and the CSDP deeply suspect. On the other hand, given the increased interdependence that neo-liberal institutionalists emphasize, the key liberal theory of European integration – namely intergovernmentalism – has continued to highlight the role of the major states.
