National strategies in EU diplomatic governance : the informal, transactional and rotational management of negotiations between Members States of the European Union
(2019)
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- Vercauteren, Pierre
- Abstract
- What you see outside the Council of the EU with Member States publicly displaying seemingly irreconcilable positions is not the image you get when entering this institution where the formal rules and informal norms of a distinctive diplomatic system govern interstate negotiations that are organised to manage conflicts and build consensus between national delegations. The dissertation uses a praxeological angle, diplomatic lenses, and the theoretical optics of situational normativism to look inside the black box of legislative negotiations in the Council. It analyses how compromises are manufactured, and the reasons why some Member States manage to win more than others. The dissertation draws on eleven independent variables that bear on the efficacy of national negotiation strategies to offer normative propositions aiming at increasing the bargaining satisfaction of Member States. They should realise notably that in the Council you can ultimately win if you decide to lose; that being isolated might actually help; and that the European Commission can tactically be a friend with benefits.
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Guggenbühl, A. (2019). National strategies in EU diplomatic governance : the informal, transactional and rotational management of negotiations between Members States of the European Union. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/62091