Lisbon and the CSDP
Since its establishment, the European Community (EC) later known as European Union (EU) was gradually given powers by its member states to allow it conduct international affairs on its own, given its own international legal status under international law (Wessel, 1997) this legal status was achieved through reforms done by major treaties which gave the EU more powers than any international organization would ever dream of, therefore, there has always existed two vying views, intergovernmentalism vs. supranationalism, that played crucial roles in the development of the EU. The 2007 Lisbon Treaty which came into force on 1 December 2009 is one of these crucial treaties that determined the future of the EU that gave it more supranational role (Sela, 2010) . The treaty was preceded by two major events; the rejection of the Constitutional treaty and the enlargement of the members of the EU to 27 member states. As a result, the Lisbon treaty was intended to realize some reforms in decisio...