Author (Person) | Glarbo, Kenneth |
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Series Title | Journal of European Public Policy |
Series Details | Vol.6, No.4, December 1999, p634-651 |
Publication Date | December 1999 |
ISSN | 1350-1763 |
Content Type | Journal | Series | Blog |
The dismal history of European foreign policy co-operation has traditionally been told by realists and intergovernmentalists. Hence, a preliminary introduction of constructivism to the study of political co-operation history leads to highly unorthodox conclusions. Adopting a sociological vocabulary for the difficult task of first order theory, constructivism points to a symbolic content in European political cooperation that is not captured by traditional statist approaches and which, crucially, is wholly constitutive of co-operation. Moreover, constructivism supplies dubious and controversially optimistic conclusions to the integration within present-day common foreign and security policy. |
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Subject Categories | History, Politics and International Relations |
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