Literature review of implications of internal EU contestation for crises and conflict

The literature review on intraEU contestation will be conducted with a view to investigating the cleavages in the foreign policy debates inside EU countries both at the societal and elitepolitical level WP2 will consider how domestic forces construe major international trends and develop a corresponding understanding of their interest in supportingconstraining EU foreign and security policy It will consider both direct and indirect effects of member states contestation in that it will assess the extent to which nationalistic if not Eurosceptic narratives shape or influence domestic political debates possibly affecting member states consensus on EU foreign and security policy The review will devote special attention to studies highlighting the connection between the fractiousness of the foreign policy debate inside the EU and the outbreak and endurance of crises and conflicts