The book explores to what extent member states’ positions have been Europeanized in favour of a greater EU role in crisis management and defines Europeanization as the impact of the EU institutions on national politics, both as a potential platform to export policy preferences and as a constraint. As the author rightly points out, EU member states straddle three potentially conflicting commitments at the domestic, transatlantic and European contexts that have to be continuously negotiated in the formulation of foreign and security policies. 

The book explores to what extent member states’ positions have been Europeanized in favour of a greater EU role in crisis management and defines Europeanization as the impact of the EU institutions on national politics, both as a potential platform to export policy preferences and as a constraint. As the author rightly points out, EU member states straddle three potentially conflicting commitments at the domestic, transatlantic and European contexts that have to be continuously negotiated in the formulation of foreign and security policies.