The Strategic Use Of EU Foreign Policy In Times Of External Crises: The Case Of EU Border Management
UACES The 53rd European Studies Conference, Belfast, İngiltere, 11 Eylül 2023, (Özet Bildiri)
- Yayın Türü: Bildiri / Özet Bildiri
- Basıldığı Şehir: Belfast
- Basıldığı Ülke: İngiltere
- Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet
Özet
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current EU polycrisis has put already fragile founding principle of solidarity
among member states further in jeopardy considering the distribution of burden
in formulating timely and effective responses to internal and external crises.
While this permanent crisis has escalated tensions among the EU actors, some
scholars also read it as an opportunity for internal actors to address their
needs at systemic and institutional levels. Based on the literature focusing on
the internal functions of EU foreign policy, this paper aims to examine how the
strategic use of the EU foreign policy and its components by the European
Commission is becoming an ordinary practice of foreign policy making while
paving the way for alternative venues for European integration process. The
content analysis of key documents released by the EU Commission and the
relevant officials in the field of external border management is the key source
of the data used in this research. The preliminary findings of the study
suggest that the EU actors in general and the European Commission in particular
have tendency to produce and reproduce components of EU foreign policy and its
objectives with an expectation of reinforcing their internal and external
legitimacy. This strategic use of EU foreign policy and here in this case
external border policy provide a dynamic process of formulating and reinforcing
integration and identity objectives and policies of the EU. This dynamism also
raises questions over the future of European integration Project.