EU Foreign Policy via Sectoral Cooperation:The EU Joined-up Approach Towards Switzerland, Israel and Morocco (The European Union in Inteational Affairs)

by: Alexandre Veuthey (Author)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Edition: 1st ed. 2023

Publication Date: 2023/12/21

Language: English

Print Length: 310 pages

ISBN-10: 3031489977

ISBN-13: 9783031489976

Book Description

This book conceptualizes the EU’s ambition at exercising a “joined up approach” (i.e. the mobilization of EU sectoral policies to realize EU foreign policy goals towards a third country). The framework is applied to three case studies:Switzerland and the Institutional Framework Agreement, Morocco and the Weste Sahara issue, and Israel and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. With the help of these, the author argues that the EU is more likely to follow foreign policy objectives by leveraging on sectoral cooperation ties when the foreign policy objective conces the conditions of participation in the single market (Switzerland). He also shows that a lack of member states’ coherence conceing the compatibility of the foreign policy objective with overarching economic (Israel) or regional/geopolitical (Israel and Morocco) interests counteracts the exercise of a joined-up approach.

About the Author

This book conceptualizes the EU’s ambition at exercising a “joined up approach” (i.e. the mobilization of EU sectoral policies to realize EU foreign policy goals towards a third country). The framework is applied to three case studies:Switzerland and the Institutional Framework Agreement, Morocco and the Weste Sahara issue, and Israel and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. With the help of these, the author argues that the EU is more likely to follow foreign policy objectives by leveraging on sectoral cooperation ties when the foreign policy objective conces the conditions of participation in the single market (Switzerland). He also shows that a lack of member states’ coherence conceing the compatibility of the foreign policy objective with overarching economic (Israel) or regional/geopolitical (Israel and Morocco) interests counteracts the exercise of a joined-up approach.