EU External Relations Law and Policy in the Post-Lisbon Era
EU External Relations Law and Policy in the Post-Lisbon Era is a collection of works which considers the many different facets of the EU’s increasingly important engagement with the world beyond its borders. The Treaty of Lisbon, which came into effect in
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EU External Relations Law and Policy in the Post-Lisbon Era
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Dr. Paul James Cardwell School of Law, University of Sheffield Bartolomé House, Winter Street Sheffield, S3 7ND UK e-mail: [email protected]
ISBN 978-90-6704-822-4 DOI 10.1007/978-90-6704-823-1
e-ISBN 978-90-6704-823-1
Library of Congress Control Number: 2011940204 Ó T.M.C. ASSER
PRESS,
The Hague, The Netherlands, and the authors 2012
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Foreword
The growth of the European Union (EU) from a small regional coordinating organisation devoted to the management of coal and steel resources into a global political actor with a full range of power resources and unique responsibilities represents one of the most remarkable achievements in the history of international organisation. No other regional organisation on the planet has managed to take on so many of the traditional governing functions of its Member States while simultaneously developing its own power projection capabilities, involving trade policy, development and humanitarian aid, economic and financial sanctions, diplomacy and good offices, policing forces, and military forces. This achievement is even more remarkable when one considers the uneven and even disorganised institutional history of European integration, which involves numerous actors with a wide range of power resources, policy interests and institutional preferences for various forms of European integration. These actors involve not just institutions in Brussels and Luxembourg, such as the Commission and the European Court of Justice, but also national governments and policymakers, private firms, academics and think-tanks, concerned citizens and other interested players, all organised in dense webs of formal and informal networks across the EU and beyond. Despite this diffusion of actors, or perhaps because of it, European integration is critically dependent on the emergence of rules to govern the activities of these players, in the form of customs, norms, international treaties, regulations and other laws at the EU and nation
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