ABSTRACT
This chapter examines how multilevel network theory can help to understand the complex interactions between the European Union and its member states and their impact upon European foreign policies. The chapter analyses the making of a common European framework for export controls concerning goods with civil and military applications and specifically the German resistance to a reduction of its national controls as a consequence. This chapter outlines the circumstances which led to the beginning of European Community (EC) negotiations over common dual-use controls. It provides a detailed analysis of the foreign decision-making process in Germany and the EC. The chapter offers a quantitative assessment of the data with regard to the hypotheses proposed by multilevel network theory, and it examines which new insights into the making of European foreign policy could be derived from this case study. This chapter has presented a detailed analysis of the making of European and German dual-use export controls between 1992 and 1994.
