Cohesion or Cacophony? An analysis of EU voting behaviour in the United Nations General Assembly from the 62nd until the 65th session
The EU has struggled for many years to be able to speak with a single voice in external affairs. The aim of this thesis is to analyze how cohesive the EU is in the UN General Assembly (UNGA). This is done by studying the voting behaviour of the EU member states in the UNGA from the 62nd until the 65th session (2007-2011). Three hypotheses are constructed to test whether the EU voting cohesion has