The normative foundations of EU's foreign policy, their oscilloscope, context, challenges and structure have been discussed in relevant studies almost in a total clear-cut manner. This study, under current presentation, wants to define debates further than the commonsensical positions taken by foremost analyses. Social construction has congregated enough explanatory power to proof its instrumentalism in foreign policy analysis. On the other hand, discourse analysis enhances the interaction between power and knowledge, especially in the manner in which they inter-condition each other. Most decisively, Critical Discourse Analysis can be used in recurrent observation of how social practices are built and re-built and how they embedded an opposite or a circumscribing direction, compared with the one adopted in the past.Throughout this article, we aspire in target to plug in the social construction and re-construction of EU's foreign policy, with elements from Critical Discourse Analysis. We bring into a reflecting condition how the form and function of language, utilized in the discourse of different political elites in office, in different structures of the European Union, may assert conclusions and inferences about the transformations suffered by EU's foreign policy, after the Lisbon's Treaty coming into effect. We will commence our evaluations within how the social construction of EU's foreign policy appears within the provisions of the Lisbon Treaty and continue with how much stimulating information can be provided by Critical Discourse Analysis of EUss foreign policy, that can foreground testing consistency for a circulating and/or future reconstruction, as applied in the discourses of relevant political elites of the European Union.
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