CEU eTD Collection (2010); Miroshnikov, Maxim: Position of national parties toward Common Foreign and Security Policy of the European Union

CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2010
Author Miroshnikov, Maxim
Title Position of national parties toward Common Foreign and Security Policy of the European Union
Summary This paper researches positions that national political parties in Germany, France and United Kingdom have toward CFSP. The basis for research present parties' manifestos for the last two electoral periods. Comparison of these documents makes it possible to reveal similarities and differences in partisan stances toward CFSP. The attempt is made to measure the difference between parties' positions. The main aim of this paper is to find out why these convergences or divergences occur.
Several hypotheses are made, but only two of them prove to be valid: ideological and historical-cultural. However alone none of these hypotheses is able to produce explanations for the distance between partisan stances. Therefore an attempt is made to combine them and present a joint approach that is able to explain why differences and similarities in parties' positions toward CFSP occur.
Supervisor Meszerics, Tamas
Department Political Science MA
Full texthttps://www.etd.ceu.edu/2010/miroshnikov_maxim-sergeyevich.pdf

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