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The Mirages of European Foreign Policy after Lisbon
This article seeks to evaluate the potential changes introduced by the Lisbon Treaty into the foreign policy of the European Union (EU). In examining the real capacity of the EU to manage international crises and conflicts, it challenges several dominant approaches in the study of EU foreign policy. A distinction is drawn between three possible aporia in the evolution of European foreign policy : first of all, the contributions of the Lisbon Treaty are judged to not be amenable to modifying the grammar of what continues to be an essentially “institutional” foreign policy ; next, it turns out that this European foreign policy tends to exhaust itself in “speech act” diplomacy not accompanied by “action”, whether it be in developmental or defense policy ; finally, the recent, widely held belief that European “normative power” can be substituted for power properly so-called in the regulation of international problems is called into question. ■