Panos Koutrakos, Professor of European Union Law and Jean Monnet Professor of European Law has edited a new book, European Foreign Policy - Legal and Political Perspectives, published by Edward Elgar Publishing.
Each of the individual chapters is well worth reading, and the book as a whole is a useful and interesting contribution to the existing literature.
Gráinne de Búrca, Harvard Law School, USA
Panos Koutrakos, Professor of European Union Law and Jean Monnet Professor of European Law has edited a new book,
European Foreign Policy - Legal and Political Perspectives, published by Edward Elgar Publishing.
Written by leading experts, this book focuses on central issues of the foreign policy of the European Union. The issues explored include:
- how the EU’s judges understand its relationship with the international order;
- the coherence of the Union’s external action;
- the EU’s approach to its neighbours;
- the Common Security and Defence Policy; and,
- the EU’s participation in international organisations.
By addressing each topic from a legal, political science and international relations standpoint, the book highlights the different perspectives that these disciplines bring to the central issues of the EU’s foreign affairs, and starts a conversation between the respective communities.
This insightful collection of contrasted studies shines the twin beams of political science and legal analysis .... Practitioners as well as scholars will benefit from the illumination.
Nick Witney, European Council on Foreign Relations and Former Chief Executive of the European Defence Agency, UK
Scholars and students in European and international law, politics, and international relations will find this book insightful. It will also prove timely for policy-makers in the EU and international organisations, as well as think tanks and non-governmental organisations specialising in European affairs.
