Although the importance of these committees and their participants has been increasingly recognised, we still know relatively little about them. Using an original database of 138 questionnaires and 37 interviews, this book addresses this lack of knowledge, studying what these committees do and how they negotiate and resolve issues. It explores three key areas:
In doing so, it provides an innovative observation point from which EU foreign policy can be analysed.
This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of EU foreign and defence policy, external relations of the EU, European integration and politics, diplomacy and more broadly international relations.
Nicola Chelotti is LSE Fellow in the Department of International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK.