Making EU foreign policy : national preferences, European norms and common policies / edited by Daniel C. Thomas.

Includes bibliographical references and index.5050 The challenge of EU foreign policy / Daniel C.Thomas -- Explaining EU foreign policy : normative institutionalism and alternative approaches / Daniel C.Thomas -- Case studies. EU policy on Ukraine during and since the Orange Revolution : "a door neither closed nor open" / Richard Youngs -- EU policy on the International Criminal Court : institutional contexts and policy compromises / Daniel C.Thomas -- EU Policy on the Iraq War and its aftermath : The breakdown and revival of consensus-based decision-making / Jeffrey Lewis -- EU decision-making in CSDP : consensus building on Operation Artemis / Simon Duke -- EU membership negotiations with Turkey : entrapped again / Frank Schimmelfennig -- EU policy on economic partnership agreements : trade, and aid? / Ole Elgström -- EU policy on global climate change : the negotiation of burden-sharing / John Vogler -- Conclusions. Normative institutionalism and EU foreign policy in comparative perspective / Frank Schimmelfennig and Daniel C.Thomas -- Norms and all that : progress in research in EU foreign policy / Thomas Risse -- Interests, power and the EU's role in international security : a sceptical response to normative institutionalism / Anand Menon -- Norms, institutions and EU foreign policy : advancing the research programme / Michael E.Smith.

A novel explanation of how EU member states overcome their divergent preferences to reach agreement on common foreign policies, with fourteen in-depth case studies covering diplomatic and security issues, enlargement, trade, development and environmental protection.