The Europeanization of National Foreign Policies: The Case of Britain

Abstract

It will be apparent from earlier chapters, particularly from the case studies of European foreign policy in action that, however qualified the intergovernmental nature of the policy-making processes involved, we cannot understand European foreign policy-making without looking at the separate foreign policies of member states. Embedded within the concept of European foreign policy, however, is the notion that the foreign policies of member states have been significantly changed, if not transformed, by participation over time in foreign policy-making at the European level. This process of change can be referred to as the ‘Europeanization’ of national foreign policies.