No. 28: ESDP After Lisbon

More Coherent and Capable?

Author(s): Christian Mölling
Editor(s): Daniel Möckli
Series: CSS Analyses in Security Policy
Issue: 28
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies, ETH Zurich
Publication Year: 2008

The Treaty of Lisbon, if ratified, comprises a series of innovations designed to increase the coherence and capabilities of the EU as a security actor. Besides several institutional changes, there are also new substantive concepts, such as the protocol on permanent structured cooperation. Moreover, security cooperation is being relabeled. It will be known no longer as the European but as the Common Security and Defense Policy (CSDP), which signifies a new level of ambition. However, major characteristics remain unchanged, and the impact of the reforms may be rather limited.

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