Case Study on the Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

This is a project outcome report on a substudy conducted within the EUFORPOL project at the Comenius University in Bratislava. EUFORPOL explored the emerging system of EU foreign policy making and the role of small member states in it. The substudy concentrates on Austrian diplomacy, especially its bilateral dimension, in the context of the country’s EU membership. Results from a case study on developments in the Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) are the basis for the following outline. A comprehensive conceptualization of diplomacy anchored in new-institutionalist terms serves as initial point for research on changes on the level of inner-EU bilateral diplomacy as well as on the level of bilateral relations to third states. This short project outcome report only illustrates selected results from the case study. A comprehensive outline will be available soon in the form of a dissertation.

Austria, Diplomacy, EEAS, EU, Foreign Policy, Institutionalism, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Neutrality, Small States

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Comenius University in Bratislava

EUFORPOL Working Paper Series

WP7