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Zusatztext With the Lisbon Treaty in force for over seven years and the challenges that await the EU and its Member States' foreign policy, this book will shape academic thinking on the constitutional value of these objectives. Whether one is interested in a comparative analysis between the EU, States' and international organizations' constitutional approaches to foreign policy, the constitutional constraints and possibilities these objectives pose on the EU and its Member States, or a more theoretical discussion on the constitutional meaning of foreign policy objectives, this book will be a reference for years to come. Informationen zum Autor Dr. Joris Larik is Assistant Professor of Comparative, European, and International Law at Leiden University, Senior Researcher at The Hague Institute for Global Justice, and Associate Fellow at the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies. His work focuses on the law and policy aspects of regional organizations as actors in world politics, comparative and multilevel constitutional law, and global governance reform.Dr Larik's work has been acknowledged with several awards, including the NATO Manfred Wörner Essay Award (2008), the Outstanding Paper Award from the Center for German and European studies at Georgetown University (2012), and the Mauro Cappelletti Prize for the Best Thesis in Comparative Law (2014) from the European University Institute (EUI). In 2014-15, Dr. Larik served on the core project team for the Report of the Commission on Global Security, Justice & Governance, co-chaired by former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and former Nigerian Foreign Minister Ibrahim Gambari. Klappentext Presenting the first comprehensive account of foreign policy objectives as a growing part of European constitutional law, this book examines the nature, functions, and potential of these objectives by approaching EU external relations law through both comparative constitutional analysis and international relations theory. Zusammenfassung Presenting the first comprehensive account of foreign policy objectives as a growing part of European constitutional law, this book examines the nature, functions, and potential of these objectives by approaching EU external relations law through both comparative constitutional analysis and international relations theory. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Europe's International Ambitions as a Topic of Constitutional Law 1: Understanding Constitutional Foreign Policy Objectives: Insights from Comparative Constitutional Law 2: The Substance of Constitutional Foreign Policy Objectives 3: Foreign Policy Objectives as Norms of EU Constitutional Law 4: E Pluribus Cohaerente: Foreign Policy Objectives in the European Constitutional Space 5: 'Normative Power' and the Power(lessness) of Norms: Constitutional Foreign Policy Objectives and the Theories of International Relations Conclusion: European Constitutional Law between 'Worldy Ambition' and Spes Saeculi ...
