CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2014
| Author | Lazarova, Mariya Veselinova |
|---|---|
| Title | RE-ARRANGING EU???S EXTERNAL ACTION COMPETENCES AFTER THE TREATY OF LISBON: THE CASE OF CRISIS RESPONSE |
| Summary | This thesis employs the concepts of ‘coordinative discourse’ and ‘communicative discourse’ from the fourth kind of new institutionalisms - Discursive Institutionalism and applies them to the idea of ‘comprehensive approach’ being promoted at the EU level. The work focuses on the sphere of crisis response and seeks to explore whether the ‘comprehensive approach’ as a discourse is strong enough to have causal influence on the way two offices responsible for crisis response coordinate their actions. This done by interviewing officials from the European External Action Service and from the European Commssion; by analysng the discourse they use to describe their experiences of working with the other body; and finally by looking at the two institutions’ press releases on three case studies, in which both of them was involved in a significant manner. What is under scrutiny in the last is whether the concept of a ‘comprehensive approach’ manages to bind together EU’s humanitarian aid which is under the authority of the Commission and the other instruments which are controlled by the EEAS in a common discourse when it comes to communicating EU’s achievements in third countries, despite institutional quarrels between the two. |
| Supervisor | Balazs, Peter |
| Department | International Relations MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2014/lazarova_mariya.pdf |
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