Foreign Affairs and the EU Constitution: Selected Essays - Softcover

Schütze, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1316617203 ISBN 13: 9781316617205

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2016

Synopsis

Foreign affairs are 'border' affairs - in a geographical and a constitutional sense. They are traditionally subject to distinct constitutional principles, for the political questions posed might not be susceptible to legal answers. And yet, in our globalized world, the orthodox distinction between 'internal' and 'external' affairs has lost much of its clarity. The contemporary world is an international world - a world of collective trade agreements and collective security systems. The European Union - as a union of States - embodies this collective spirit on a regional international scale. But what is the relationship between this new European legal order and the old legal order of international law? When can the Union act on the international scene and, if so, how? Foreign Affairs and the EU Constitution brings together a collection of outstanding essays on external relations written by one of the leading constitutional scholars of the European Union.

About this title

Book Description:

Written by one of the leading constitutional scholars and experts on EU external relations, this collection of essays explores the European Union's constitutional regime for foreign affairs - in particular, the relationship between European and international law, as well as the vertical and horizontal division of foreign affairs powers.

About the Author:

Robert Schütze is Professor of European Law and Co-Director of the Global Policy Institute at Durham University.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1316617203
• ISBN 13: 9781316617205
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 558