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This chapter adds to our understanding of EU maritime foreign and security policy-making by exploring the de facto administrative functioning in the domain. It does so by studying another key actor in these processes, namely the European External Action Service, EEAS, its day to day administrative cooperation with the Commission, as well as how the EEAS and the Commission interact with their formal principles, the member states, and how these dynamics affect decision-making outcomes. The study suggests that a new, the facto administrative maritime foreign and security system has developed, where the EEAS operates relatively independently of the member states, while at the same time becoming increasingly integrated into the structure of the Commission. The de facto administrative functioning of the CFSP is thus not very different from other EU policy fields.
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Riddervold, M. (2018). Beyond the Pillar Divide: The Administrative Functioning of EU Maritime Foreign and Security Policies. In: The Maritime Turn in EU Foreign and Security Policies . Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66598-6_6
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