| The Making of the Eu's Lisbon Treaty: The Role of Member States Contributor(s): Winand, Pascaline (Editor), Laursen, Finn (Editor) |
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ISBN: 905201812X ISBN-13: 9789052018126 Publisher: P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Editions Scientifiques OUR PRICE: $49.83 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Civics & Citizenship - Political Science | History & Theory - General - Political Science | International Relations - General |
| Dewey: 341.242 |
| LCCN: 2011045106 |
| Series: Cite Europeenne / European Policy |
| Physical Information: 324 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The European Union (EU) has gone through a number of treaty reforms since the establishment of the European Communities in the 1950s and the creation of the European Union by the Maastricht Treaty in 1992. The latest such reform is the Lisbon Treaty, which entered into force in 2009. In this book, a number of scholars explore the process of producing the Lisbon Treaty. The focus is on the role of member states, arguably the 'masters of the treaty.' Intergovernmental conferences have become the main setting for treaty reforms since the Single European Act (SEA) in the mid-1980s. This makes national preferences and inter-state bargaining important when new treaties are negotiated. The Lisbon Treaty delineates a number of institutional changes. In the end the product has to be evaluated against the standards established at the outset. Will the treaty improve the efficiency, democratic legitimacy as well as the coherence of the Union's external action, as the member states claimed it would? While the final text of the treaty leaves the EU with some new institutional possibilities, it also has its limitations, especially in the area of foreign and security policy. |