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My article addresses the role of the two post-Lisbon High Representatives (HRs), Catherine Ashton and Federica Mogherini, in EU approach to the Eastern neighbourhood. Adopting a broad conceptualisation of EU foreign policy and drawing on the scholarly literature on new intergovernmentalism, it focuses on events that marked the HRs' mandates in the cases of Kosovo and Ukraine. In the case of Kosovo, it examines the HRs' role in the conclusion of the so-called Brussels Agreement (April 2013); and of the August 2015 agreements. In the case of Ukraine, it reconstructs how the HRs dealt with the events leading up to the November 2013 Vilnius Summit; and with those leading up to the conclusion in February 2015 of the Minsk II Agreement. The article argues that the European Council exerts tight control over the post-Lisbon HR, and EU foreign policy-making processes more generally. Nonetheless, the empirical analysis demonstrates that, under certain circumstance, the HR can significantly influence EU foreign policy in the post-Lisbon era.
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Notes on contributor
Maria Giulia Amadio Viceré is a Post-Doctoral Fellow and Adjunct Professor at LUISS University (Rome, Italy). She is also a Research Associate at the Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI) (Rome, Italy). Before that, she has been an Assistant Professor at the University of Leiden (NL); an elected member of the Academic Association for Contemporary European Studies' Graduate Forum Committee (UACES); a Blue Book Trainee at the European Commission (Service for Foreign Policy Instruments); and a research trainee at the European Policy Centre (Brussels, BE). Over time, she has held visiting positions at the European University Institute (RSCAS, Florence, Italy); at the University of Washington, as an EZ Founders Scholar (Seattle, WA, USA); and at the Policy Institute at King's College, (London, UK).