EU external relations and systems of governance: the CFSP, Euro-Mediterranean partnership and migration

This book takes a fresh look at the external relations of the European Union (EU) and in particular the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP). Rather than focusing exclusively on the competence aspects of the institutions and actors, the book makes the case that the CFSP can be understood as a system of governance, which produces effects beyond the traditional tools associated with foreign policy. The theoretical approach draws on insights from new institutionalism, constructivism and the institutional theory of law and emphasises how the institutionalised forms of cooperation in the ex

1. The CFSP : objectives, operation and perspectives -- 2. Trends and challenges in EU governance -- 3. An institutional constructivist framework of legal analysis -- 4. The Euro-Mediterranean Partnership as a system of governance I : the EU's Mediterranean policies -- 5. The Euro-Mediterranean Partnership as a system of governance II : EuroMed institutions and instruments -- 6. EU migration law and policy and its external dimensions -- 7. Interaction between EuroMed and migration governance.

Takes a fresh look at the Common Foreign and Security Policy of the EU. Looking at the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership and migration, this book explores how the CFSP contributes to a system of governance in the EU, and is a means by which the EU's goals can be articulated and met