Bulletin n. 1/2015
June 2015
CONTENTS
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • De Bernardin Sandro
    Lo stato d’attuazione della politica estera europea
    in Rivista di Studi Politici Internazionali , Volume 81, n. 4, ottobre-dicembre ,  2014 ,  491-500
    European foreign policy is not developed enough due to the lack of European political integration. Nevertheless, one cannot deny that a European foreign policy exists. Indeed, all European partners display a genuine interest in achieving convergence on how to handle international affairs. When they fail to do so, each of them feels that something went wrong for the common interest and should be repaired. Being based upon the so-called intergovernmental approach, European foreign policy is the common denominator of the view points of the 28, which often risks to be low. The role of the high representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy (Cfsp) is to lead European partners to agree on targets that go beyond the ‘natural’ common denominator. Times are ripe for fine-tuning Cfsp operational tools (namely sanctions) and the geographical distribution of Eu missions on the ground. The Ukrainian crisis should call the attention on the need for a strategic reflexion on the Eu ultimate borders: to delay further such reflexion would maintain an element of confusion in European foreign policy. The dramatic developments which took place in the European neighbourhood in the latest four years demand an updating of the European Security Strategy. In the past, Cfsp ‘leaps forward’ were driven by the pressure of contingent international crises. Present crises may constitute the opportunity for further progress. The new high representative wears a special responsibility in making it to happen.
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