Secrecy and the making of CFSP
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6407463 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mai’a K Davis Cro (0000-0001-7662-9823, Northeastern University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 914-932 |
| Publication date | 2018-07-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | West European Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0140-2382 • E-ISSN: 1743-9655 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01402382.2018.1435088 |
| OpenAlex | W2789995827 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 22 |
How can we understand the role of secrecy in the making of the European Union’s Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP)? This article analyses the nature of secrecy and questions some of the main assumptions surrounding the concept. In this respect, it argues that secrecy may be of functional necessity for policy-makers and actually compatible with good governance. Moreover, we must not put too much stock in transparency alone in that the relationship between secrecy and transparency is not zero-sum ‒ historically, transparency has sometimes been an instrument of control and domination. The article considers the case of the Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) to shed light on what kind of secrecy exists in the foreign policy area, and argues that this is mainly a combination of functional and compound secrecy.\nThe final version of this research has been published in West European Politics. © 2018 Taylor & Francis
Economics · Law and economics · Political economy · Political science · Secrecy · European Union Policy and Governance · International Law and Aviation · International Law and Human Rights · Law
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Ethnographies of closed doors
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The EU's Common Foreign and Security Policy
Overseeing Secrets in the EU
The Informal Politics of Legislation
Rethinking epistemic communities twenty years later
Democratic Secrecy
Introduction to 'Secrecy and Transparency
Logics of Political Secrecy
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,43 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2024 (6) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |