Table of Contents

Foreword Part I: Horizontal and Transversal Issues Associated with the EU’s Supranational Competences 1. Supranationality and Sovereignty in an Era of Increasing Complexity and Fragmentation 2. The Implications of Supranationality and Legitimacy: A legal perspective 3. Configuring the Rule of Law in the EU Polity: Between supranationality and sovereignty Part II: The External Dimension of the EU’s AFSJ 4. External Unity, Institutional Complexity and Structural Fragmentation: The evolution of EU external competence in the AFSJ 5. Externalising the Policy against Trafficking in Human Beings: When supranationality meets its limits 6. Finding a Path through a Multi-headed Interregional Relationship: The EU’s action vis-à-vis the ASEAN region in criminal matters Part III: The External Dimension of the EU’s Sustainable Development Efforts 7. The EU’s Legal Framework and the Limits of its External Environmental Regulatory Influence 8. Global Environmental Complexity and the Limits of the EU’s External Regulatory Actorness 9. The European Union’s External Governance in the Area of Rural Development: Understanding the consequences Part IV: The External Dimension of the EU’s Contribution Towards Global Economic and Monetary Governance 10. Addressing the Difficulty of How to Represent the Euro Area/EU within the IMF 11. The Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) and Global Macroeconomic Imbalances 12. The EU’s External Competition Policy: A Hybrid Approach Part V: Trade Policy 13. Commercial Policy: The European Union and the world trade and investment order 14. The Evolution of the EU Investment Policy since the Lisbon Treaty: From a Conservative to an Innovative Policy? 15. Investigating Supranationality in Rule-making Related to Preferential Trade Agreements CONCLUSION Various Forms of Governance beyond the State: The price to pay for the resilience of European supranationality in the face of complexity and change

About the Author

Mario Teló is Professor of International Relations at the LUISS-Guido Carli, Rome and IEE-ULB, Brussels, Belgium.

Anne Weyembergh is Professor at institut d’études européennes (IEE-ULB) at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and Director of the Center for European Law of the Law Faculty at the ULB, Belgium.