Based on a liberal theoretical perspective, Spillner assumes that governments translate domestic preferences into their foreign policies. These domestic preferences are constituted by public pressure and foreign elite opinion. Drawing on newspaper analysis and document analysis of parliamentary debates in France and Germany, this paper shows that French public pressure and foreign elites’ opinion favoured an intervention, while the German public and foreign policy elites’ were more sceptical about EU military engagement.
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