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详细
In the post-9/11 world, the European Union has been trying to define its international presence in a way which corresponds to its economic power and enlarged membership. In an effort to assert its identity on the international scene, it has developed a very wide range of economic relations with third countries and international organisations.
It has also developed a Common Foreign and Security Policy in the context of which it is gradually shaping its Security and Defence Policy. These policies are carried out on the basis of distinct, albeit interrelated sets of legal rules. This book provides a comprehensive and systematic analysis of these economic, political and security aspects of the relations of the European Union with the rest of the world.
It examines their genesis, development and interactions and places them in the specific context of the establishment of the internal market and the broader context of the increasingly interdependent international economic and geopolitical environment.
Issues covered include:-
- the coexistence of Community and national competence in external relations,
- the approach of the Court of Justice to international law,
- the negotiation, conclusion and implementation of international agreements,
- the relationship between EC and WTO law and the development of the political
- security policies of the Union.
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Panos Koutrakos is Professor of European Law at the University of Bristol.
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Koutrakos provides the reader with rich and up-to-date material which is hard to find elsewhere. He also takes clear positions on crucial issues…this book surely deserves attention by a large public. It presents an accurate description of the law, combined with thoughtful and convincing analytical comments. Students, scholars and practitioners alike may benefit from careful reading.
Frank Hoffmeister
Common Market Law Review, Vol 44
2007
…it is a pleasure to read this book…Panos Koutrakos must be congratulated for delivering a timely book that eloquently explains and analyses the EU's external..relations in several important policy areas.
Nikolaos Lavranos
European Foreign Affairs Review, Vol 12, Issue 1
Spring 2007
