政策网络与欧盟对外决策分析

The Policy Networks Theory and the European Foreign Policymaking

欧盟多层治理体系下的对外决策具有独特性和局限性,需要发挥网络组织的灵活机制和资源配置能力,帮助克服欧盟正规决策程序中的复杂性和等级制,提高欧盟对外决策的利益协调能力和问题解决能力。政策网络理论在分析利益协调、理解网络结构、推动合作过程以及发展决策体系内公、私行为体协调等方面具有明显的理论优势。本文将欧盟对外政策研究与政策网络方法相结合,目的在于检验政策网络方法在分析政策网络结构影响欧洲对外决策方面的作用。

The EU foreign policymaking under its multilevel governance system has its own characteristics and limitations in that it needs the flexibility and resource application capacity of network organisations to overcome the complexity and hierarchy of the EU's formal decision-making process and to improve the interest mediation and problem-solving ability of the EU's foreign policy. The policy networks theory possesses obvious theoretical advantages in analysing and understanding issues like the interest intermediation,network structure,cooperation promotion and public-private coordination. By linking the policy networks theory with the EU's foreign policymaking,this paper intends to examine how the informal actor clusters influence the process of European foreign policymaking.