ABSTRACT
This book addresses the puzzle of how national foreign policies in the EU affect common EU positions in international politics (e.g. the Common Commercial Policy, Common Foreign and Security Policy, ESDP); while at the same time how these same national foreign policies are to some extent ‘Europeanized’ into more convergent, coordinated policies. 1 The central research question relates to the interaction between the EU’s common positions (i.e. both Community and CFSP positions) and Member States’ national foreign policies. How does the influence run? In what issue areas? With what significance?
