Insights for Foreign Policy Analysis from European Union External Action Studies

IF 1.7 2区社会学 Q2 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

Foreign Policy Analysis Pub Date : 2022-10-21 DOI:10.1093/fpa/orac033

Sieglinde Gstöhl, Simon Schunz

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Abstract

The European Union (EU) has increasingly become a foreign policy actor in its own right, sparking the emergence of EU External Action Studies (EU EAS). Although this thriving field at the intersection of EU Studies and International Relations has gradually matured, the interaction of EU EAS with Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA) has so far remained limited. This contribution discusses whether concepts and approaches from EU EAS hold valuable theoretical insights for FPA, and how these could be exploited. It argues that there is a largely untapped potential for cross-fertilization between the two fields. This claim is illustrated with several examples as well as two short instructive cases that show how the approach to studying the EU's “external effectiveness” helps addressing FPA's blind spot regarding foreign policy impacts, and how the critical agenda on “decentering” EU external action directs much-needed attention to the “foreign” in FPA.

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欧盟对外行动研究对外交政策分析的启示

欧盟(EU)越来越多地成为其自身权利的外交政策参与者，引发了欧盟对外行动研究(EU EAS)的出现。尽管这一欧盟研究与国际关系交叉的蓬勃发展的领域已经逐渐成熟，但欧盟外交政策分析与外交政策分析(FPA)的互动到目前为止仍然有限。这篇文章讨论了欧盟EAS的概念和方法是否对FPA具有有价值的理论见解，以及如何利用这些见解。它认为，这两个领域之间的交叉施肥潜力在很大程度上尚未开发。这一主张用几个例子和两个简短的指导性案例来说明，这些案例表明，研究欧盟“外部有效性”的方法如何有助于解决FPA在外交政策影响方面的盲点，以及欧盟对外行动“去中心化”的关键议程如何将急需的注意力引向FPA中的“外国”。

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Foreign Policy Analysis INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS-

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3.60

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期刊介绍： Reflecting the diverse, comparative and multidisciplinary nature of the field, Foreign Policy Analysis provides an open forum for research publication that enhances the communication of concepts and ideas across theoretical, methodological, geographical and disciplinary boundaries. By emphasizing accessibility of content for scholars of all perspectives and approaches in the editorial and review process, Foreign Policy Analysis serves as a source for efforts at theoretical and methodological integration and deepening the conceptual debates throughout this rich and complex academic research tradition. Foreign policy analysis, as a field of study, is characterized by its actor-specific focus. The underlying, often implicit argument is that the source of international politics and change in international politics is human beings, acting individually or in groups. In the simplest terms, foreign policy analysis is the study of the process, effects, causes or outputs of foreign policy decision-making in either a comparative or case-specific manner.