Robert Schutze

Foreign Affairs and the EU Constitution

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"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"--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 558
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. März 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 816g
• ISBN-13: 9781316617205
• ISBN-10: 1316617203
• Artikelnr.: 45162424

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; Part I. International Law and the EU Constitution - Normative
Aspects: 1. On 'federal ground': the European Union as an (inter)national
phenomenon; 2. On 'middle ground': the European Union and public
international law; 3. The 'succession doctrine' and the European Union; 4.
European law and member state agreements: an ambivalent relationship?; Part
II. Foreign Affairs and the EU Constitution - Vertical Aspects: 5.
Federalism and foreign affairs: mixity as an (inter)national phenomenon; 6.
Dual federalism constitutionalised: the emergence of exclusive competences;
7. Parallel external powers: from 'Cubist' perspectives towards
'naturalist' constitutional principles?; 8. The ERTA Doctrine and
cooperative federalism; Part III. Foreign Affairs and the EU Constitution -
Horizontal Aspects: 9. External Union powers: competences and procedures;
10. External Union legislation: international agreements; 11. The 'treaty
power' and parliamentary democracy: comparative perspectives; 12. External
Union policies: a substantive overview; Annex. Foreign affairs provisions
in the EU Constitution (selection).