Peace through speech or peace through strength’? The European Parliament’s views on the EU’s security role in the East
(2015) , 38 pages
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- Despite its limited formal competences in foreign policy, the European Parliament is active in trying to present a specific vision for the EU’s external action. Debates on the EU’s role as a security provider in the Eastern neighbourhood are useful to analyse the security ambitions set forth by the Members of the EP. Using the qualitative grounded theory method, this paper demonstrates that the EP wants the EU to have a more active security role in the East, for external as well as internal reasons. A preliminary quantitative study of the MEPs’ individual involvement in the debates also highlight the importance of national factors in understanding the EP’s functioning, as well as the existence of a clear East-West divide on security matters relating to the EU’s Eastern neighbourhood.
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Follebouckt, X. (2015). Peace through speech or peace through strength’? The European Parliament’s views on the EU’s security role in the East (Working Paper ISPOLE 11). https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/99167