Foreign Policy Objectives in European Constitutional Law

Dr. Joris Larik is Assistant Professor of Comparative, European, and International Law at Leiden University, Senior Researcher at The Hague Institute for Global Justice, and Associate Fellow at the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies. His work focuses on the law and policy aspects of regional organizations as actors in world politics, comparative and multilevel constitutional law, and global governance reform.Dr Larik's work has been acknowledged with several awards, including the NATO Manfred Wörner Essay Award (2008), the Outstanding Paper Award from the Center for German and European studies at Georgetown University (2012), and the Mauro Cappelletti Prize for the Best Thesis in Comparative Law (2014) from the European University Institute (EUI). In 2014-15, Dr. Larik served on the core project team for the Report of the Commission on Global Security, Justice & Governance, co-chaired by former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and former Nigerian Foreign Minister Ibrahim Gambari.

• Introduction: Europe's International Ambitions as a Topic of Constitutional Law ; 1. Understanding a Constitutional Foreign Policy Objectives: Insights from Comparative Constitutional Law ; 2. The Substance of Constitutional Foreign Policy Objectives ; 3. Foreign Policy Objectives as Norms of EU Constitutional Law ; 4. E Pluribus Cohaerente: Foreign Policy Objectives in the European Constitutional Space ; 5. 'Normative Power' and the Power(lessness) of Norms: Constitutional Foreign Policy Objectives and the Theories of International Relations ; Conclusion: European Constitutional Law between 'Worldy Ambition' and Spes Saeculi

Larik's work represents the most comprehensive and legally reasoned argument on the nature, legal force and value of EU's foreign policy objectives to date. By providing academics and practitioners alike with a legal framework in which to understand foreign policy objectives, it has the potential to shape the 'bounds of possibility' of the debate on EU's external action for years to come.