The Treaty of Lisbon: Origins and Negotiation

by David Phinnemore

Decisive rejection by French and Dutch voters in 2005 forced the EU to abandon the Constitutional Treaty agreed the previous year. Yet by the end of the 2007, contrary to all expectations and after an intergovernmental conference essentially devoid of substantive negotiation, EU leaders had agreed and signed the Treaty of Lisbon containing the bulk of the Constitutional Treaty's substantive reforms.

How did this latest treaty come about? Why...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230242588
• ISBN13: 9780230242586
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.3"