ABSTRACT
This book examines the varied competences of the European Union (EU) in relation to its capacity to externalize its policy preferences. Specifically, it explores the continued resilience within the EU’s policy toolbox of supranational modes of governance beyond the State.
The book first situates European experiences of supranationality in relations to the wide variety of regional and global modes of governance it comes into contact with when seeking to deal with an increasingly complex and fragmented international environment. Over the course of its subsequent sections, the book analyses the resilience, flexibility and adaptability of the EU’s supranational practices across a significant cross-section of policy fields, for example, Area Freedom of Justice, Justice and Security; Socio-economic Governance; or Trade Policies. Overall, these chapters unpack the impact of the EU’s internal institutional complexity on the EU's external capacity to export its preferences in an increasingly fragmented international environment. This in turn, sees the book also question whether the EU has the institutional tools to guarantee and implement consistency between its internal and external policies.
This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of EU politics/studies and more broadly to International relations, International/EU Law, comparative regionalism, international political economy, security studies, international law.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|61 pages
Horizontal and transversal issues associated with the EU’s supranational competences
chapter 3|17 pages
Configuring the rule of law in the EU polity
part II|54 pages
The external dimension of the EU’s AFSJ
chapter 4|26 pages
External unity, institutional complexity and structural fragmentation
chapter 5|12 pages
Externalising the policy against trafficking in human beings
chapter 6|14 pages
Finding a path through a multi-headed interregional relationship
part III|42 pages
The external dimension of the EU’s sustainable development efforts
chapter 9|14 pages
The European Union’s external governance in the area of rural development
part IV|50 pages
The external dimension of the EU’s contribution towards global economic and monetary governance
part V|46 pages
Trade policy
chapter 14|14 pages
The evolution of the EU investment policy since the Lisbon Treaty
part VI|17 pages
Conclusion