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The European Union's Common Foreign And Security Policy: It Is Not Far From Maastricht To Amsterdam, Daniel T. Murphy
The European Union's Common Foreign And Security Policy: It Is Not Far From Maastricht To Amsterdam, Daniel T. Murphy
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
The radical shift in and expansion of the concepts of European law wrought by the now more than five-year-old Treaty on European Union (TEU) are not fully appreciated in the United States. Until the TEU of 1992, European law was bounded by the reasonably well-defined and understood contours of the Treaty of Rome and its amendments. The expressly political TEU added new dimensions to European law, the relationships among the Member States, and the scope of activities to be pursued by the European Union. This expansion was accomplished through, among other provisions, (1) the TEU's monetary union provisions; (2) its …