Tomas Maltby
My research argues that EU membership affects the formation of national foreign policy, and that New Member States (NMS) have also shaped EU level policy making.
The mechanisms for change identified are: pre-accession conditionality related adaptation (the acquis communautaire); strategic learning relating to adaptation of national policy (and institutions) and change of projection techniques to adhere to EU norms and ‘rules of the game’ (the acquis politique); norm leadership or advocacy, focusing resources on a particular issue.
This research is a contribution to the literature on: (1) assessing accession and the impact of EU enlargement on the constituent states and the Union as a whole; (2) national and EU level policy formation on energy security; and (3) a more general examination of the extent of the process of bi-directional Europeanisation in an area of ‘high politics’. The investigation focuses on the role of Poland, Latvia and Bulgaria on the EU's energy security policy.
This focuses on the strategic behaviour of (New) Member State actors, within the constraints set by EU membership both on how they have attempted to influence the EU’s external energy security policy through their recent membership, and how / whether their membership has led to a reorientation of national foreign policy in this area.
Supervisors: Dr. Stuart Shields and Professor Dimitris Papadimitriou
The mechanisms for change identified are: pre-accession conditionality related adaptation (the acquis communautaire); strategic learning relating to adaptation of national policy (and institutions) and change of projection techniques to adhere to EU norms and ‘rules of the game’ (the acquis politique); norm leadership or advocacy, focusing resources on a particular issue.
This research is a contribution to the literature on: (1) assessing accession and the impact of EU enlargement on the constituent states and the Union as a whole; (2) national and EU level policy formation on energy security; and (3) a more general examination of the extent of the process of bi-directional Europeanisation in an area of ‘high politics’. The investigation focuses on the role of Poland, Latvia and Bulgaria on the EU's energy security policy.
This focuses on the strategic behaviour of (New) Member State actors, within the constraints set by EU membership both on how they have attempted to influence the EU’s external energy security policy through their recent membership, and how / whether their membership has led to a reorientation of national foreign policy in this area.
Supervisors: Dr. Stuart Shields and Professor Dimitris Papadimitriou
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