Trotz ihres immensen Beitrags zur Gewährleistung der Energieversorgungssicherheit ist die Energieaußenhandelspolitik der Europäischen Union nur selten Gegenstand wissenschaftlicher Untersuchung. Die Abhandlung setzt sich eingangs mit den faktischen Gegebenheiten und Abläufen im...

"While provisions relating to a common commercial policy (CCP) were already to be found in Articles 110- 116 of the original Treaty of Rome, and a common customs tariff was established during the 1960s,1 it was only in an Opinion of 1975 that the European Court of Justice (ECJ) confirmed...

This interdisciplinary work presents a conceptual framework and brings together constructivist and rationalist accounts of how EU norms are adopted, adapted, resisted or rejected. These chapters provide empirical cases and critical analysis of a rich variety of norm-takers from EU member states,...