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Regional and International Relations of Central Europe pp 219–238Cite as

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Europeanization of Foreign Policy: Whither Central Europe?

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The entry of Central European (CE) countries into the European Union (EU) has been characterized by Europeanization understood as deep, broadbased, and regionally relatively coherent adaptation processes and socialization into a set of EU standards of policymaking and governance (Ágh 1999; Schimmelfennig 2001; Sedelmeier 2001; Schimmelfennig and Sedelmeier 2005; Fink-Hafner 2007). This chapter argues that foreign policymaking constitutes an important exception from this pattern, which not only calls for a rethinking of the concept of Europeanization, but also alerts us to the need to think of the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) as a policy domain characterized by local and varying patterns of adaptation in the member states.

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  1. University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

    Zlatko Šabič (Professor of International Relations) (Professor of International Relations)

  2. Institute of International Relations, Prague, The Czech Republic

    Petr Drulák (Director) (Director)

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Bátora, J. (2012). Europeanization of Foreign Policy: Whither Central Europe?. In: Šabič, Z., Drulák, P. (eds) Regional and International Relations of Central Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137283450_12

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