1st Edition

EU External Relations and Systems of Governance The CFSP, Euro-Mediterranean Partnership and Migration

By Paul James Cardwell Copyright 2009
264 Pages
by Routledge

264 Pages
by Routledge

264 Pages
by Routledge

This book takes a fresh look at the external relations of the European Union (EU) and in particular the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP). Rather than focusing exclusively on the competence aspects of the institutions and actors, the book makes the case that the CFSP can be understood as a system of governance, which produces effects beyond the traditional tools associated with foreign... Read more

1. Identifying EU Governance: Terminology, Trends and Challenges  2. An Institutional Constructivist Framework of Legal Analysis of CFSP  3. Foreign Policy in Practice: The Euro-Mediterranean Partnership  4. Revisiting the ‘Pillars’: EU Migration Law and Policy-Making  5. The Foreign Policy of Migration in EuroMed  6. CFSP as a System of Governance  7. Conclusion

Biography

Paul James Cardwell is a Lecturer in Law at the University of Sheffield.

"This book provides an important contribution to improve the depth of EU external policy analysis." – Bruno Oliveira Martins, Journal of Common Market Studies, Volume 48. Number 4 (2010)