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This research project has challenged prevailing views on the European Union’s development of foreign policy and external relations — both the Intergovernmentalists’ claim that policy-making in this area is dominated (and often fatally undermined) by the member states’ hard pursuit of national interests and counter claims that the path to agreement is smoothed by discursive exchanges that promote durable convergence in national preferences.
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Schimmelfennig, F., Thomas, D.C. (2011). Normative Institutionalism and EU Foreign Policy in Comparative Perspective. In: Thomas, D.C. (eds) Making EU Foreign Policy. Palgrave Studies in International Relations Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230307360_10
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