This paper suggests an ideational perspective of new institutional leadership and applies it to the Commission's political leadership role in the policy process on EU-Turkey cooperation regarding migration during the timeframe from 2014 to 2016. For this purpose, we propose a conceptual framework -based on the causal mechanism of 'strategic framing' -, which traces how the Commission's ideas were deployed through specific instruments by its actors and networks. Therefore, this paper feeds into the claim for new institutional leadership and more specifically, regarding the Commission's political leadership, by revealing how the Commission's ideational resources have shaped some of the main policy outcomes in EU-Turkey cooperation at the time of the refugee crisis. In this paper, we understand political leadership as a process in which an actor, with institutional, ideational and personal resources, proactively mobilises to shape the policy processes and their outcomes.
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