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Does the flag still follow trade? Agency, politicization and external opportunity structures in the post-Lisbon system of EU diplomacy
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Smith, Michael H. (2017) Does the flag still follow trade? Agency, politicization and external opportunity structures in the post-Lisbon system of EU diplomacy. The Hague Journal of Diplomacy . doi:10.1163/1871191x-13010011 ISSN 1871-191X.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1163/1871191x-13010011
Abstract
This article focuses on the past and present of the European Union’s system of diplomacy, and asks whether the changes initiated by the Lisbon Treaty have really transformed that system. The Lisbon Treaty promised to transform the situation in which ‘the flag followed trade’ and give a primary role to the diplomacy of politics and security. Using arguments based on the location of agency, the politicization of economic diplomacy and the logic of external opportunity structures, the article argues that the transformation has not taken place, and that EU external action remains essentially a hybrid construct in which economic diplomacy plays a central role. Such a situation has important implications for EU diplomacy in third countries and for the character of the EU’s diplomatic representation, especially when it comes to the demand expressed in the EU’s 2016 Global Strategy for ‘joined up’ or closely coordinated external action.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | ||||
SWORD Depositor: | Library Publications Router | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | The Hague Journal of Diplomacy | ||||
Publisher: | Brill Academic Publishers | ||||
ISSN: | 1871-191X | ||||
Official Date: | 15 September 2017 | ||||
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DOI: | 10.1163/1871191x-13010011 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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