The effect of geopoliticisation on the EU’s polity: exploring institutional power shifts
研究了欧盟追求地缘政治议程对其制度架构的影响,提出分析框架并梳理了文献中已出现的制度权力转移迹象,适合关注欧盟治理与地缘政治互动的学者。
The aspiration of the EU to pursue a geopolitical agenda has raised both interest and scepticism within the academic and policy community. The ability to adopt and implement an ambitious geopolitical agenda depends on the institutional machinery that is to shape, decide and implement such policies. However, instrumentalising the EU’s economic, industrial, environmental, or budgetary policies to support foreign policy objectives requires adaptation of – or triggers at least adaptive pressures to – the existing polity. In the EU, this process is further complicated due to the division of competencies between the national and European level, as well as the different modes of decision-making in various areas of EU external action. We advocate the systematic study of the institutional impacts of geopoliticisation on the European Union, offer a conceptual framework to steer this emerging agenda, and provide an exploration into the first empirical manifestations of the emerging shifts in the EU’s polity as presented in the literature so far.