Foreign Affairs and the EU Constitution
Selected Essays

A collection of essays that surveys the development and structure of the European Union's constitutional regime for foreign affairs.

Robert Schütze (Author)

9781316617205, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 21 July 2016

558 pages, 3 b/w illus. 1 map 8 tables
22.8 x 15.2 x 2.9 cm, 0.81 kg

'… this collection of essays is recommended both to students of EU foreign relations law active in academia, and to those interested more generally in learning more about Professor Schütze's distinctive approach to the study of EU law … As no other, the author succeeds in systematising the disparate materials in this area, and in introducing 'broader constitutional lines' where at first sight one can only see disparate points on a chaotic canvas, to paraphrase the author. Arguably, this quality makes Professor Schütze one of the greatest pedagogues known in the field of EU law today.' Thomas Verellen, European Law Review

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.

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).

Subject Areas: Constitutional & administrative law [LND], Law [L], Politics & government [JP]