TY - BOOK ID - 626776 TI - Foreign affairs and the EU constitution : selected essays PY - 2014 SN - 9781107037663 1107037662 9781139794756 1322176531 1316010864 113999025X 1316006360 1316617203 1316004104 1316008606 1316001865 1316013103 1139794752 1139985639 9781316004104 9781316008607 9781316010860 9781316617205 9781316006368 9781316013106 9781316001868 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Public law. Constitutional law KW - International relations. Foreign policy KW - International law KW - European Union KW - European Union countries KW - Foreign relations KW - Law and legislation KW - #SBIB:327.7H233 KW - #SBIB:340H30 KW - Europese Unie: externe relaties, buitenlands- en defensiebeleid (ook WEU) KW - Staats- en administratief recht KW - Law and legislation. KW - LAW / International. KW - Law / international. KW - Etats-Unis KW - European Union countries - Foreign relations - Law and legislation UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:626776 AB - Foreign affairs are 'border' affairs - in a geographical and a constitutional sense. They are traditionally subject to distinct constitutional principles, for the political questions posed might not be susceptible to legal answers. And yet: in our globalized world, the orthodox distinction between 'internal' and 'external' affairs has lost much of its clarity. The contemporary world is an international world - a world of collective trade agreements and collective security systems. The European Union - as a union of States - embodies this collective spirit on a regional international scale. But what is the relationship between this new European legal order and the old legal order of international law? When can the Union act on the international scene and, if so: how? Foreign Affairs and the EU Constitution brings together a collection of outstanding essays on external relations written by one of the leading constitutional scholars of the European Union. ER -