Helene Sjursen is Professor at ARENA – Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo, Norway, she has been at ARENA since 1997. Her main fields of academic interest include the EU as an international actor, EU's foreign and security policy and EU enlargement.

• 1. INTRODUCTION, The EU’s Common Foreign and Security Policy: The Quest for Democracy, Helene Sjursen 2. Not so Intergovernmental After All? On Democracy and Integration in European Foreign and Security Policy, Helene Sjursen 3. Invisible and Unaccountable? National Representatives and Council Officials in EU Foreign Policy, Ana E. Juncos and Karolina Pomorska 4. The EU as a Community of Practice: Foreign-policy Communications in the COREU Network, Federica Bicchi 5. The Political Theory and Practice of Parliamentary Participation in the Common Security and Defence Policy, Christopher Lord 6. A Contradiction in Terms? NGOs, Democracy, and European Foreign and Security Policy, Jutta Joachim and Matthias Dembinski 7. Governance between Expertise and Democracy: The Case of European Security, Erik Oddvar Eriksen 8. Democratic Foundations of EU Foreign Policy: Narratives and the Myth of EU Exceptionalism, Ben Tonra

Helene Sjursen is Professor at ARENA – Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo, Norway, she has been at ARENA since 1997. Her main fields of academic interest include the EU as an international actor, EU's foreign and security policy and EU enlargement.

• 1. INTRODUCTION, The EU’s Common Foreign and Security Policy: The Quest for Democracy, Helene Sjursen 2. Not so Intergovernmental After All? On Democracy and Integration in European Foreign and Security Policy, Helene Sjursen 3. Invisible and Unaccountable? National Representatives and Council Officials in EU Foreign Policy, Ana E. Juncos and Karolina Pomorska 4. The EU as a Community of Practice: Foreign-policy Communications in the COREU Network, Federica Bicchi 5. The Political Theory and Practice of Parliamentary Participation in the Common Security and Defence Policy, Christopher Lord 6. A Contradiction in Terms? NGOs, Democracy, and European Foreign and Security Policy, Jutta Joachim and Matthias Dembinski 7. Governance between Expertise and Democracy: The Case of European Security, Erik Oddvar Eriksen 8. Democratic Foundations of EU Foreign Policy: Narratives and the Myth of EU Exceptionalism, Ben Tonra

Helene Sjursen is Professor at ARENA – Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo, Norway, she has been at ARENA since 1997. Her main fields of academic interest include the EU as an international actor, EU's foreign and security policy and EU enlargement.

• 1. INTRODUCTION, The EU’s Common Foreign and Security Policy: The Quest for Democracy, Helene Sjursen 2. Not so Intergovernmental After All? On Democracy and Integration in European Foreign and Security Policy, Helene Sjursen 3. Invisible and Unaccountable? National Representatives and Council Officials in EU Foreign Policy, Ana E. Juncos and Karolina Pomorska 4. The EU as a Community of Practice: Foreign-policy Communications in the COREU Network, Federica Bicchi 5. The Political Theory and Practice of Parliamentary Participation in the Common Security and Defence Policy, Christopher Lord 6. A Contradiction in Terms? NGOs, Democracy, and European Foreign and Security Policy, Jutta Joachim and Matthias Dembinski 7. Governance between Expertise and Democracy: The Case of European Security, Erik Oddvar Eriksen 8. Democratic Foundations of EU Foreign Policy: Narratives and the Myth of EU Exceptionalism, Ben Tonra