英文摘要 |
European integration is a highly dynamic process of constant balancing between idealism and pragmatism and between progress-making and compromise-seeking with a long-term aim towards "an ever closer union." All the treaties signed by the member states in the framework of the European Union are important outcomes of this process. The key purpose of this article is to explore how the EU's security policy seeks dynamic compromise and balance between inter-governmentalism and supra-nationalism and what impact such a balancing would have on the union's further cooperation. This is done through the examination of the highly sensitive dimension of integration process, focusing on the normalization and practice of security policy concerning the Lisbon Treaty. This article first analyses how the EU strives to solve the dilemma of governance through treaty-making whereby its security cooperation could be consolidated. It also inspects the background, development, and practice of the Lisbon Treaty concerning security policy. In addition, the interface of internal and external security provided by the Lisbon Treaty is also a focus of this research to understand the broadening of EU security integration. This article concludes with the overall review of the impact of the Lisbon Treaty on the EU's security cooperation as a whole, in conjunction with the identifying of the volatile positioning of the Lisbon Treaty in the spectrum between sovereign predominance and union coherence. To sum up, the Lisbon Treaty offers opportuni ties for the inclination towards the "community method" of EU's security policy through persistent practice in a way that would evade the controversies of supra-nationalism while also deviating from conventional inter-governmentalism. In this sense, the Lisbon Treaty has prompted the EU security cooperation to move towards the model of "Brusselization" that delicately maintains the mutual interests of the individual member states and the EU in general. |