Europeanization and Foreign Policy - 9781138969148

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Europeanization and Foreign PolicyState Identity in Finland and Britain\nAuthor(s): Juha Jokela\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138969148, 978-1138969148\nSynopsis\nThis book examines the relationship between the European Union (EU) and its member states by analysing how the process of integration in the field of foreign policy is shaping member states' identities. \n\nFocusing on the mutually constitutive aspects of the relationship between the EU and its member states, Jokela argues that we need discourse analytic and comparative tools for analysing foreign policy in the EU context and draws on the contributions of poststructural international relations. Providing empirically rich and comparative case studies that explore the impact of europeanization of foreign and security policy on Finnish and British foreign policy discourses as well as these states identities, Jokela generates detailed knowledge about th.