"To speak with one voice"? Europeanization in intergovernmental policy areas. The case of the European Political Cooperation (EPC), 1970-1981

该研究项目分析了自20世纪70年代初以来，由于欧洲政治合作(EPC)制度化导致的决策过程、操作习惯和感知模式的变化，外交政策的欧洲化。研究项目的两个主要问题是，一方面，欧洲多层次体系中外交政策的内容、结构、操作习惯和感知模式是否以及在多大程度上因新形式外交政策合作的发展、加强的沟通以及EPC体制框架内的新政治行为者而发生变化；另一方面，EPC内部的政府间合作是否以及在多大程度上--与广泛接受的观点相反--根据这一观点，在1970年代，面对国内的反对，欧共体成员国政府之间越来越多的政府间合作阻碍了进一步的一体化--启动了非意向的一体化动态。研究项目的结果旨在帮助重新评估欧洲一体化进程中的政府间或跨政府政策领域，并重新评估欧洲化概念在多大程度上适合作为欧洲一体化进程历史的分析框架。因此，该研究项目有助于扩大欧洲一体化史学的方法论和问题以及理论话语。

The research project analyzes the Europeanization of foreign policy as a result of changing decision-making processes, operational habits and perceptual patterns caused by the institutionalization of the European Political Cooperation (EPC) since the early 1970s. The two main questions of the research project are, on the one hand, if and to what extent the content, structures, operational habits and perceptual patterns of foreign policy in the European multi-level system have been changed by the development of new forms of foreign policy cooperation, intensified communication and new political actors within the institutional framework of the EPC; on the other hand, if and to what extent the intergovernmental cooperation within the EPC - contrary to the widely accepted opinion according to which the increasing intergovernmental cooperation among EC member state governments in the face of domestic opposition hindered further integration in the 1970s - has initialized non-intended integrational dynamics. The results of the research project are meant to contribute to the re-evaluation of inter- or transgovernmental policy areas in the process of European integration and to reassess, to what extent the concept of Europeanization is appropriate as an analytical framework for the history of the process of European integration. Thus, the research project contributes to the amplification of methodical approaches and issues as well as to the theoretical discourse in European integration historiography.