Ethical Dimensions of the Foreign Policy of the European Union: A Legal Appraisal (Cambridge Studies in European Law and Policy)

Urfan Khaliq analyses the theory and practice of the European Union's 'ethical foreign policy', arguing that current practices dilute the impact and efficacy of Union policies but that an effort which is at times effective is being made to protect certain values in the Union's international relations. Beginning with an investigation of the international rules authorising or obliging the Union/Community or the Member States to promote certain values in third countries or take action to protect them, Khaliq goes on to examine the limits under international law which constrain such policies. The issues are then assessed from a Union/Community law perspective, and the importance attached to ethical values and their relationship with other priorities and objectives is analysed in the context of relations with Myanmar, Nigeria, Pakistan, Israel and the Palestinian Authority. The European Community's humanitarian aid policy is also discussed. "Urfan Khaliq analyses the theory and practice of the European Union's 'ethical foreign policy', arguing that current practices dilute the impact and efficacy of Union policies but that an effort which is at times effective is being made to protect certain values in the Union's international relations. Beginning with an investigation of the international rules authorising or obliging the Union/Community or the Member States to promote certain values in third States or take action to protect them, Khaliq goes on to examine the limits under international law which constrain such policies. The issues are then assessed from a Union/Community law perspective, and the importance attached to ethical values and their relationship with other priorities and objectives is analysed in the context of relations with Myanmar, Nigeria, Pakistan, Israel and the Palestinian Authority. The European Community's humanitarian aid policy is also discussed."--BOOK JACKET Content: Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Table of Contents; Series Editors' Preface; Acknowledgements and Preface; The Constitutional Treaty and the Reform Treaty: Table of Equivalences; Table of Cases; Table of Treaties; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; 2 Promoting Values in Foreign Relations: Policy and Legal Issues; 3 Promoting Values and the International Relations of the Union and Community: Competence and Practice; 4 Ethical Values and Foreign Policy in Practice: Responses to the Denial of Democracy in Myanmar, Nigeria and Pakistan. 5 Ethical Values and Foreign Policy in Practice: the Role of the Union in the Middle East Peace Process and Relations with the Palestinian Authority and Israel6 Ethical Values and Foreign Policy in. Practice: Humanitarian Aid and the European Union; 7 Conclusions; Select Bibliography; Index. Abstract: How does the EU promote ideas such as human rights in relations with third States?