Crisis and change in European Union foreign policy: A framework of EU foreign policy change

by Nikki Ikani

Overview

This book provides a new analytical framework that investigates the way in which the EU changes its foreign policy after crisis. Adapting existing theorising of foreign policy change to a single framework applicable to the EU context, Ikani provides a toolbox to explain the process of change and measure the policy change that follows. The framework is developed through an examination of two important EU foreign policy change episodes (post-Arab uprisings and post-Ukraine invasion), and test-driven in three recent cases of EU foreign policy change after crisis.
The volume presents a novel typology of EU foreign policy change, advancing the fields of foreign policy analysis, public policy studies and International Relations. It explains both the decision-making process leading to policy change, and the variation in change outcomes following this process.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781526182586
Publisher:	Manchester University Press
Publication date:	01/28/2025
Series:	European Politics
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x (d)

About the Author

Nikki Ikani is Assistant Professor Intelligence and Security at Leiden Universityat the Institute of Security and Global Affairs. She is also a Visiting Research Fellow at the War Studies Department at King’s College London.

Table of Contents

Introduction
1 An analytical framework for studying EU foreign policy change
2 Foreign policy change after the Arab uprisings: The neighbourhood policy revised
3 Foreign policy change after the Ukraine crisis: Changing the neighbourhood policy once more
4 Conceptualising EU foreign policy change
5 Test-driving the analytical framework
Conclusion
Bibliography
List of interviews

Index

Editorial Reviews

'The book provides a timely analysis of the impact of crisis on EU foreign policy and the ENP. [...] For academics interested in the details of foreign policy change, this book is a welcome contribution that challenges thin conceptualizations of this phenomenon as a cumulative process. And for policy-makers who are unsure how to deal with today's challenges in the EU's neighbourhood, this book is a useful reflection upon past decisions. Ikani recognizes the opportunities and constraints of the institutional and temporal factors and encourages policy-makers to actively shape the substance and direction of change in the future.'
Trineke Palm, International Affairs, Volume 98, Issue 6

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