Kurumsal bileşenler ışığında Avrupa Birliği diplomasisinin gelişimi

Year 2022, Volume: 15 Issue: 4, 759 - 782, 25.10.2022

Çiğdem Şahin

https://doi.org/10.25287/ohuiibf.1162541

Abstract

Avrupa Birliği’ne Lizbon Antlaşması’yla getirilen düzenlemeler içinde öne çıkan yeniliklerin bir kısmı dış eylemlere ilişkindir. Birlik Dış ve Güvenlik Politikası Yüksek Temsilciliği ve Avrupa Dış Eylemler Servisi gibi oluşumlar, Avrupa Birliği diplomasisinin orijinallikleri olarak görülmektedir. Ancak bu kurumsal yapılar uzun süreli bir diplomatik gelişim sürecinin sonunda ortaya çıkmışlardır. Çalışmada bu gelişim süreci Avrupa Birliği’nin diplomatik varlığı ve Lizbon Antlaşması’yla doğan diplomatik kişiliği temelinde iki dönemde ele alınmaktadır. AB diplomatik sisteminin temel özelliklerinden biri olarak kurumsal bileşenler, tarihsel gelişimdeki etkileri itibariyle önemi olduğundan, hem en eski hem de iç-dış diplomatik sistem bileşen örnekleri olarak Coreper ve Avrupa Komisyonu/Birlik Delegasyonları incelenmektedir. İlgili literatürün ve AB hukuku kaynakları, resmi kararları ve raporları ışığında hazırlanan çalışmada, YT ve ADES gibi kurumsal yeniliklerin uzun bir tarihsel mücadelenin sonucunda var oldukları, ancak kendilerinden önceki iç ve dış boyutlarda işleyen kurumsal yapıların hazırladığı zeminde, yine sorunlu da olsa doğabildikleri sonucu ortaya konmaktadır.

Keywords

Avrupa Birliği, diplomasi, diplomatik kişi, Coreper, Komisyon/AB delegasyonları

Evolution of European Union diplomacy in the light of institutional components

Abstract

Some of the prominent innovations brought to the European Union by the Lisbon Treaty are related to external actions. Institutions such as The High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and the European External Actions Service are seen as originalities of European Union diplomacy. However, these institutions emerged as a result of a long-term diplomatic development process. In the study, this development process is discussed in two periods on the basis of the diplomatic entity and diplomatic personality born with the Lisbon Treaty. Since institutional components, as one of the main features of the EU diplomatic system, are important in terms of their effects on historical development, Coreper and European Commission/Union Delegations are examined as examples ofboth the oldest and internal-external diplomatic system components. In the study, which was prepared in the light of the relevant literature and EU official decisions and reports, it is concluded that institutional innovations such as the High Representative and the European External Actions Service have emerged as a result of a long historical struggle by the institutional structures operating in the internal and external dimensions.

Keywords

European Union, diplomacy, diplomatic persona, Coreper, Commission/EU delegations

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