European Foreign Policy and the European Parliament in the 1990s: An Investigation into the Role and Voting Behaviour of the European Parliament's Political Groups

by Viola, Donatella M.

• ISBN13: 9781840145113
• ISBN10: 1840145110
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-02-01
• Publisher: Ashgate Pub Co

Summary

This book investigates the European Parliament's stance vis-a-vis the 1990-1991 Gulf and 1991-1992 Yugoslav crises. In unveiling the parliamentary multi-faceted view of these events, reference has been made to the positions taken by constituent political groups and their voting behaviour. In particular, the following questions have been addressed: has the European Parliament sought to define and shape a common foreign policy with respect to the above crises? What specific functions have the European Parliament political groups performed? Have political groups succeeded in achieving an internal cohesion? Has the European Parliament overcome divisions among its members through the formation of party coalitions? despite the considerable flow of published material on external relations of the European Union and the European Parliament, virtually no study has explored in-depth the links between these two areas. The purpose of this book is to fill the gap in the existing literature, breaking new ground by combining a qualitative and qualitative analysis of parliamentary behaviour with foreign policy.

Table of Contents

Detailed Table of Contents	vi
List of Tables	xii
List of Illustrations and Charts	xiv
Preface	xvi
Acknowledgements	xvii
List of Abbreviations	xviii
Introduction	1	(11)
European Foreign Policy and the European Parliament	12	(34)
The Responses of the European Community and the European Parliament to the Gulf Crisis	46	(27)
The Role of the Political Groups in Forging the European Parliament's Stance on the Gulf Crisis	73	(74)
The Responses of the European Community and the European Parliament to the Yugoslav Crisis	147	(32)
The Role of the Political Groups in Forging the European Parliament's Stance on the Yugoslav Crisis	179	(86)
Conclusion	242	(21)
Epilogue	263	(2)
Appendix	265	(28)
Bibliography	293