This book provides a new analytical framework that investigates the way in which the EU changes its foreign policy after crisis. Adapting existing theorising of foreign policy change to a single framework applicable to the EU context, Ikani provides a toolbox to explain the process of change and measure the policy change that follows. The framework is developed through an examination of two important EU foreign policy change episodes (post-Arab uprisings and post-Ukraine invasion), and test-driven in three recent cases of EU foreign policy change after crisis.

The volume presents a novel typology of EU foreign policy change, advancing the fields of foreign policy analysis, public policy studies and International Relations. It explains both the decision-making process leading to policy change, and the variation in change outcomes following this process.

Reviews

'The book provides a timely analysis of the impact of crisis on EU foreign policy and the ENP. [...] For academics interested in the details of foreign policy change, this book is a welcome contribution that challenges thin conceptualizations of this phenomenon as a cumulative process. And for policy-makers who are unsure how to deal with today's challenges in the EU's neighbourhood, this book is a useful reflection upon past decisions. Ikani recognizes the opportunities and constraints of the institutional and temporal factors and encourages policy-makers to actively shape the substance and direction of change in the future.'
Trineke Palm, International Affairs, Volume 98, Issue 6

'The book is well timed for postgraduate research students looking for an appreciation of the theoretical challenges associated with making sense of how an international institution such as the EU reacts to challenges and what it might be reasonable to expect from it.'
Lorenzo Cladi, Journal of Common Market Studies

Introduction
1 An analytical framework for studying EU foreign policy change
2 Foreign policy change after the Arab uprisings: The neighbourhood policy revised
3 Foreign policy change after the Ukraine crisis: Changing the neighbourhood policy once more
4 Conceptualising EU foreign policy change
5 Test-driving the analytical framework
Conclusion
Bibliography
List of interviews

Index

Author

Nikki Ikani is Assistant Professor Intelligence and Security at Leiden University. She is also a Senior Non-Resident Associate Fellow at the NATO Defence College, and Visiting Fellow at the War Studies Department at King's College London.