Michal Onderčo and his colleagues recently published an article in Contemporary Security Policy on the topic Does CFSP co-ordination foster convergence? Voting behavior on nuclear weapons at the UN General Assembly.
The recent developments in global security, such as the weakening transatlantic link, Russian attempts to undermine EU foreign policy unity and the rise of Eurosceptic populist parties, have put the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) under strain, calling for a reassessment of its convergence-fostering effect.
By analyzing EU voting behavior on resolutions on nuclear weapons at the United Nations General Assembly from 1979 to 2022, the authors show that while convergence among CFSP participants hardly increases, the level of consensus remains stable, which counters the theoretical expectations of mainstream accounts of EU foreign policy.