Smith, Michael E. (2001) "The quest for coherence: Institutional dilemmas of external action from Maastricht to Amsterdam". In: UNSPECIFIED, Madison, Wisconsin. (Unpublished)
Abstract
[These] actor perceptions about institutional performance and change prompt two major questions that I address in this chapter. First, what kinds of institutional problems resulted from Maastricht's provisions on external relations? Second, to what extent, and how, have these problems been resolved? To answer these questions, in the rest of this chapter I first map out the EU's institutional space in the policy domains most directly concerned with external relations. I then show how these mechanisms created new problems, and thus pressures for institutional change, once the Treaty came into effect. These problems are defined primarily in terms of institutional gaps and contradictions across the EU's external policy domains. Finally, I explain how the EU has attempted to resolve these problems through two sets of institutional reforms, one informal and the other formal.
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