Laatikanen, Katie
Degrand-Guillaud, Anne
[UCL]
The Lisbon Treaty of European Union entails significant changes for foreign policymaking, including the creation of a permanent Presidency, a Vice President of the Commission-High Representative for Foreign Affairs, legal personality for the EU, and an External Action Service. These reforms reflect the need to streamline the policymaking in Brussels and are intended to provide coherence to the various foreign policy processes in Brussels and in the world. However, the authors of this paper--located in Brussels and New York--argue that these changes will have unforeseen impact in the very area where the EU has great visibility as an international actor—the United Nations. While the Lisbon Treaty increases the salience of the EU on the world stage and reflects the logic of policymaking in Brussels, it creates both legal and political challenges for EU foreign policy in New York which could prove detrimental to EU ambitions at the UN. By paying close attention to the particular logic of the political process at the UN, the authors propose a flexible coordination mechanism that is consistent with the Lisbon Treaty, recognizes the intergovernmental context of UN politics, and would dramatically improve the diplomatic influence of the EU at the United Nations.
Bibliographic reference |
Laatikanen, Katie ; Degrand-Guillaud, Anne. Two Logics, one treaty: The Lisbon Treaty and EU Foreign Policy in Brussels and at the UN. In: Studia Diplomatica, Vol. LXIII, no.1, p. 3-22 |
Permanent URL |
http://hdl.handle.net/2078/195845 |