From Vision To Reality - 9780367009861

Taylor & Francis

The book identifies the intentions behind a collection of key policy decisions for establishing Europe's new security order and investigates whether the implementation of those and subsequent decisions has resulted in the intended policy outcome. > From Vision to Reality takes the reader past the fixation with political decision-making by focusing on the process of implementation that follows important policy decisions. The book identifies the intentions behind a collection of key policy decisions for establishing Europe's new security order and investigates whether the implementation of those and subsequent decisions has resulted in the intended policy outcome. > Preface -- Visions and Decisions: A New Security Order -- Implementation: An Overlooked Aspect of Foreign Policy -- The OSCE: Implementing Democratic Stability -- The EU and CFSP: Gaps between Intentions and Outcomes -- The WEU: Sleeping Beauty Is Awake! -- NATO, NACC and PfP: Architect, Builder, Building and Customer.