ABSTRACT
Using the case of the EU’s Association Agreement negotiations with the Andean Community and the Central American Common Market, this chapter details the extent to which a divergence of views between institutional actors within the EU, and DG Trade and the former DG RELEX, in particular, has shaped the outcome of negotiations for Association Agreements. It also serves to illustrate that while the Lisbon Treaty has rendered the issue of cooperation between different EU-level institutions more acute, the phenomenon nevertheless predates it. Given the parallel nature of negotiations with both of these regional integration organizations in the Latin American region at the time, the chapter traces the effect of individual institutional elements of these negotiations by comparing and contrasting them. In consequence, the chapter is structured according to the different phases of both negotiations. These negotiations which began prior to the Lisbon Treaty but which were only finalized in its aftermath also serve to illustrate the book’s analytical claim that decision-making complexity and duration significantly alter negotiation dynamics.
