What's in a name? Challenges to the creation of EU delegations

The Hague Journal of Diplomacy

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 51-64

  Drieskens, Edith ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Commission delegations; EU delegations; EU external representation; European External Action Service (EEAS); Lisbon Treaty; United Nations (UN)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855675524     PISSN: 18711901     EISSN: 1871191X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/187119112X614648     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (17)

1. See Michele Comelli and Raffaello Matarazzo, 'Rehashed Commission Delegations or Real Embassies?', IAI Working Paper, no. 11, 2011.
2. David Spence, 'The European Commission's External Service', Public Policy and Administration, vol. 19, no. 3, 2004, pp. 61-76.
3. Referring to Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, Spence writes that the network has 'grown like Topsy': neither strategy nor declared intentions played a role.
4. For an excellent account of the early years, covering the search for autonomy and the gradual institutionalization of delegations, see Véronique Dimier and Mike McGeever, 'Diplomats Without a Flag: The Institutionalizations of the Delegations of the Commission in African, Caribbean and Pacific Countries', Journal of Common Market Studies, vol. 44, no. 3, 2006, pp. 485-505.
5. European Commission, Taking Europe to the World: Fifty Years of the European Commission's External Service (Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, 2004), pp. 24-25.
6. European Commission, Taking Europe to the World, p. 9.
7. The European Convention, 'Final Report of Working Group VII on External Action', 2002, CONV 459/02 (WG VII 17), paragraphs 7 and 69.
8. David Spence, 'The European Commission's External Service', p. 61.
9. Spence, 'The European Commission's External Service', p. 75.
10. Michael Bruter, 'Diplomacy without a State: The External Delegations of the European Commission', Journal of European Public Policy, vol. 6, no. 2, 1999, pp. 199-201.
11. See David Rijks, 'EU Diplomatic Representation in Third Countries', paper presented at the Garnet Conference on 'The EU in International Affairs', Brussels, 24-26 April 2008, pp. 16-17.
12. Rijks, 'EU Diplomatic Representation in Third Countries', p. 15.
13. European Commission, 'Commission Decision of 12.11.2008 Laying Down Rules on Secondment to the Commission of National Experts and National Experts in Professional Training', 2008, C(2008) 6866 final.
14. On the role of the rotating Presidency in the UN context, see, for instance, Katie Verlin Laatikainen and Anne Degrand-Guillaud, 'One Treaty, Two Logics: The Lisbon Treaty and EU Foreign Policy in Brussels and at the UN', Studia Diplomatica, vol. LXII, no. 1, 2010, pp. 1-22.
15. Maximilian B. Rasch, The European Union at the United Nations: The Functioning and Coherence of EU External Representation in a State-centric Environment (Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff, 2008), pp. 95-116.
16. Anne Degrand-Guillaud, 'Characteristics of and Recommendations for EU Coordination at the UN', European Foreign Affairs Review, vol. 14, no. 4, 2009, pp. 607-622.
17. Katie Verlin Laatikainen, 'Multilateral Leadership at the UN after the Lisbon Treaty', European Foreign Affairs Review, vol. 15, no. 4, 2010, pp. 481-482.