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High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy after the Lisbon Treaty: a single voice of Europe as a global player?
Matoušek, Ondřej ; Weiss, Tomáš (advisor) ; Šlosarčík, Ivo (referee)
This bachelor thesis aims to examine the impact of the Lisbon Treaty on the European Union foreign policy in terms of the EU's institutional architecture. It explores how the Lisbon reform responds to the previous weaknesses of the EU foreign policy mechanisms and what is its potential for the future of this special dimension of the European integration. The paper studies the impact of the Lisbon Treaty on three main areas - coherence, effectiveness and visibility of the EU foreign policy. It concludes that the innovations introduced by the reform treaty, led by the enhanced function of the High Representative, are correctly aiming at the previous causes of incoherence. At the same time, however, they produce a risk of new inter- institutional conflicts. Effectiveness remains a problematic issue. The external action is limited by the rigid decision-making process. Although the High Representative is not a single voice of the Union on the international scene, the Lisbon Treaty significantly improves the representation of the EU. However, this may be counter-productive in case of incoherent and inefficient foreign policy formulation process. Since many provisions of the treaty related to foreign policy are vague, the question remains whether the Member States will decide to take advantage of its...
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The Role of High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina in its Postwar Reconstruction in between 1995-2002: Closing the "Capability-Expectations Gap"
Šitera, Daniel ; Králová, Kateřina (advisor) ; Tejchman, Miroslav (referee)
Bosnia has been an international protectorate for fifteen years after the end of civil war which was ravaging the country between 1992-1995. The protectorate was to originally give way to Bosnian growing sovereignty after one year since the end of civil war. Instead, the International Community started to increase its activity in the country via an expansion of the High Representative's capabilities (financial and military resources of the protectorate, High Representative's authority to take actions against Bosnia elected representatives, etc.). High Representative was ad hoc institution which was created to administer the international protectorate in Bosnia. At the end of 1997, High Representative received the so-called Bonn Powers which gave him authority to directly impose legislation and to dismiss Bosnian elected representatives. Any such usage of Bonn powers was justified as an effort to speed up Bosnia's stabilization and facilitate thus international departure from the country. However, Bosnia is destabilized country and international protectorate even in 2011. The usage of Bonn Powers proved to be wrong, since it could establish a Bosnian state minimally suitable to the international expectations, but it has at the same time failed to establish a Bosnian state suitable to the domestic...
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