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THE MAKING OF THE EUS LISBON TREATY KARTONIERT ...

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.

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