Description
Book SynopsisGovernmentality and EU External Trade and Environment Policy applies theories drawn from Foucauldian governmentality studies to investigate the ideological and political roots of the European Union (EU)'s external trade and environmental policy and their effects on the transnational legal landscape. The EU's desire to spread environmental norms abroad is viewed in the book as a significant feature of contemporary EU trade policy. The EU's activities in this area have not been uncontroversial for other transnational legal actors. States, individuals, and organizations have challenged the EU's various trade and environment policies, arguing that they are coercive, unfair, over-reaching, or inefficient. Meanwhile, these policies have also raised a number of questions from the perspective of legality and political theory.
This book considers what the practice of EU external trade and environment policy, and international resistance to it, tells us about the way the EU pe
Table of Contents
1. Introduction 2. Setting the Stage 3. Rights and Market 4. Government and Governance 5. Citizens and Stakeholders 6.Conclusion
