The EU's foreign policy and the search for effect

The Lisbon Treaty sought to meet new global challenges by providing the European Union (EU) with stronger institutional capacity and policy instruments to make it a more effective international actor in foreign and security terms. The article sets out the structures and practices agreed and contested by both Member States - especially the United Kingdom and France - and the European Commission, focusing on the roles of the High Representative (HR) for Foreign Affairs and the European External Action Service. It points to the disjuncture between the formal calls for greater coherence and consequence in the EU's foreign policies, the problems of creating an effective policy vehicle and the practices that undermine both its efforts and its legitimacy

Business · Coherence (philosophical gambling strategy) · Commission · European commission · European union · Foreign policy · International trade · Legitimacy · Member states · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Security policy · Sociology · Treaty · Treaty of Lisbon · European Union Policy and Governance · Law · Public Administration

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  Open Access•Daniela Sicurelli•Journal of Contemporary European…•2015

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• The EU Actorness in the Energy Relations with Algeria

  Open Access•Lukáš Tichý, Jan Mazač et al.•Insight Turkey•2020

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• Differentiated Cooperation in the EU’s Foreign and Security Policy

  Open Access•Marco Siddi, Tyyne Karjalainen et al.•The International Spectator•2022

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• The changing scope of intercultural dialogue in EU Mediterranean policy

  P Perini•Mediterranean Politics•2019

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• Framing the EU’s policy towards the neighbourhood

  Cristian Nitoiu•Cambridge Review of International…•2016

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• Progressive realism and the EU’s international actorness

  André Barrinha•Journal of European Integration•2016

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• Assessing the performance of the European Union in Central and Eastern Europe and in its neighbourhood

  Dimitris Papadimitriou, Dorina Baltag et al.•East European Politics•2017

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• Europe as a Global Actor

  Open Access•Karolina Pomorska, Sophie Vanhoonacker•JCMS Journal of Common Market…•2015

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• Global political leadership in the twenty-first century

  Ludger Helms•Contemporary Politics•2014

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