Coordinative Discourse of Strategic Sovereignty Tilting the European Union’s Institutional Balance

The article studies how a discursive contestation among the EU institutions (the European Commission, Parliament, and Council of Union) concept "strategic sovereignty" ("strategic autonomy") affects institutional balance them. Institutional is dynamic process in which challenge each other's authority. This conceptualized terms neo-institutionalism as coordinative discourse, forms, challenges justifies idea “strategic sovereignty”. uses cases industrial, trade policy, common security defense policy to demonstrate changing balance.The results study show that main beneficiary Commission. Most likely, there will be strengthening Council, reserves broad powers crisis management foreign policy. position Parliament ambivalent: although growth its weight possible, it depend both on Parliament’s own initiatives whether Commission succeed at communitarizing new issues spheres. findings under crisis, continue tilt favor supranational level regulation.