ABSTRACT
The preamble of the Treaty on European Union (TEU)—one of the two constitutional documents of European Union (EU) law—begins with a provocative definition of the relationship between Europe and the world. This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book contributes to the project of critically analyzing the EU and its role in international law and international relations in two separate but related ways. First, it aims to perform a "re-mapping" of the field of the EU's external trade/environment agenda using tools drawn from Foucauldian and post-Foucauldian studies of governmentality. Second, its broad and multilayered conception of power is able to incorporate constructivist insights regarding identity and normative authority and stresses the importance of truth and knowledge regimes in the practice of government. The book also elaborates some of the insights that it gains from the remapping exercise.
