Gaps in EU Foreign Policy

Henrik Larsen is Professor MSO and holds the Jean Monnet Chair in European Foreign and Security Policy Integration in the Department of Political Science at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. His previous books include Discourse Analysis and Foreign Policy: France, Britain and Europe (1997), The ESDP and the Nordic Countries (with N. Græger and H. Ojanen, 2002) and Analysing the Foreign Policy of Small States in the EU: the Case of Denmark (2005).

• 1. Introduction.- 2.The Performativity of Theories.- 3. The Capability-Expectation Gap: A Double Reading.- 4. The Performativity of the Capability-Expectations Gap.- 5. Implications of the Gap Discourse for the Study of (European) Foreign Policy and European Studies.