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The traditional left-right in EU foreign policy?

Jellema, Allard LU (2019) STVM23 20191
Department of Political Science
Abstract
It is no secret that the EU’s difficulty to act as a cohesive actor in the realm of foreign policy lies mainly with the member state governments and their inability to agree on common actions. The purpose of this study is to find out whether the left-right position of EU member state governments can predict the effects these governments have on EU foreign policy cohesion. This is done by analysing the roll-call votes cast by each EU member state on United Nation General Assembly (UNGA) resolutions from 2006 until 2016. The hypotheses employed in this study are based on earlier research showing that there is variance in the preferences of EU member state governments on European integration, which can be traced back to the left-right... (More)
It is no secret that the EU’s difficulty to act as a cohesive actor in the realm of foreign policy lies mainly with the member state governments and their inability to agree on common actions. The purpose of this study is to find out whether the left-right position of EU member state governments can predict the effects these governments have on EU foreign policy cohesion. This is done by analysing the roll-call votes cast by each EU member state on United Nation General Assembly (UNGA) resolutions from 2006 until 2016. The hypotheses employed in this study are based on earlier research showing that there is variance in the preferences of EU member state governments on European integration, which can be traced back to the left-right position of these governments. Through this study’s empirical results can be concluded that the effects EU member state governments have on EU foreign cohesion can be predicted by means of their left-right placement. However, the conclusions drawn by earlier research on the effects of left-wing and right-wing governments on for example decision making in the Council of Ministers, cannot be applied in the case of EU foreign policy cohesion. (Less)
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author
Jellema, Allard LU
supervisor
organization
alternative title
A quantitative study on the influence of left-wing and right-wing governments on EU foreign policy cohesion
course
STVM23 20191
year
type
H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
subject
keywords
European Union, foreign policy, left-right government, United Nations, voting behaviour
language
English
id
8976150
date added to LUP
2019-09-06 09:20:11
date last changed
2019-09-06 09:20:16
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  abstract     = {{It is no secret that the EU’s difficulty to act as a cohesive actor in the realm of foreign policy lies mainly with the member state governments and their inability to agree on common actions. The purpose of this study is to find out whether the left-right position of EU member state governments can predict the effects these governments have on EU foreign policy cohesion. This is done by analysing the roll-call votes cast by each EU member state on United Nation General Assembly (UNGA) resolutions from 2006 until 2016. The hypotheses employed in this study are based on earlier research showing that there is variance in the preferences of EU member state governments on European integration, which can be traced back to the left-right position of these governments. Through this study’s empirical results can be concluded that the effects EU member state governments have on EU foreign cohesion can be predicted by means of their left-right placement. However, the conclusions drawn by earlier research on the effects of left-wing and right-wing governments on for example decision making in the Council of Ministers, cannot be applied in the case of EU foreign policy cohesion.}},
  author       = {{Jellema, Allard}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{The traditional left-right in EU foreign policy?}},
  year         = {{2019}},
}