This book explores how foreign policy fits within the complex constitutional structure of the EU, providing both an analysis of the constitutional reality of EU foreign policy and a theoretical analysis suggesting possibilities for reform.

Dr Geert De Baere works in the chambers of Advocate General Sharpston at the Court of Justice of the European Communities and is also a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Antwerp.

• Preface


• List of Abbreviations


• Table of Legal Instruments and Other Documents


• Table of Cases and Opinions


• Introduction


• Part I: EC External Relations


• 1: Conferral


• 2: Vertical Conflict Resolution in EC External Relations: Exclusivity and Non-exclusivity


• 3: The Community Method


• Part II: The Common Foreign and Security Policy


• 4: CFSP v. EC External Relations


• 5: Democracy and the Rule of Law in EU Foreign Policy


• 6: The Dichotomy Between EC External Relations and the CFSP


• Part III: Managing The Vertical and Horizontal Axes


• 7: Managing the Vertical Axis


• 8: Managing The Horizontal Axis: Horizontal Consistency


• Part IV: Conclusions


• 9: The Constitutional Particularities of EU Foreign Policy


• 10: EU Foreign Policy, Identity, and Law


• Bibliography