(In-)Coherence in EU Foreign Policy: Exploring Sources and Remedies

• Main Authors: PORTELA, Clara, RAUBE, Kolja
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2009
• Subjects: Eastern European Studies; Policy Design, Analysis, and Evaluation; Political Science
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/1751; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/3008/viewcontent/Portela_clara_29_2009ESAMeet.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

How does the EU deal with incoherence and coherence? In this paper we try to answer this research question in order to draw conclusions on the specific nature of the EU as a foreign policy actor. We define coherence and incoherence in EU foreign policy as our dependent variable in a first step. Cohe...