Sixty Years of European Integration and Global Power Shifts

In summary, this new volume offers a rich and dense panorama of the multiple challenges that the EU confronts in its daily external action, including many that remain underexplored in the literature. One of the originalities of this anthology lies in the comparative dimension of the issues examined. Moreover, while many of the questions investigated appear at first sight to be ‘niche’ issues, the volume develops a web of interconnections that raise overarching and even paradigmatic questions … The collection’s balance coupled with the originality of the approaches adopted in many of its chapters demonstrate, overall, the volume’s strength: it brings together internal market and EU external action specialists as well as trade policy analysts to shed important new light on some of the most topical challenges faced by the EU on the global economic stage. -- Julien Miéral, University of Cambridge * European Law Review *
At present, it is impossible to investigate the law, politics and economy separately because they are so inter-entangled. This complexity is perfectly addressed the present edited volume (produced to celebrate 60 years of European integration) in which current legal issues are analysed along with legal challenges to the EU’s role as a global actor and commercial policy as its crucial policy field … Overall, having met its own aims, the volume certainly deserves attention. * Journal of Common Market Studies *
At some 500 pages, Sixty Years of European Integration and Global Power Shifts is not a brief bedtime story. Yet its page range reflects one of the book’s major strengths: its comprehensive nature, which has become so characteristic of Julien Chaisse’s work. Another of Chaisse’s fortes, to bring together a wide variety of people working on different aspects of a certain theme, is equally displayed in the book, which includes contributions from academics, legal practitioners (including arbitrators), policy advisors and consultants, and a judge of the Court of Justice of the European Union … These make Sixty Years of European Integration and Global Power Shifts especially valuable reading whilst a pandemic is raging through the world, stopping nearly all, but geopolitics. * Foreign Trade Review *
By bringing together experts on each specific topic they examined, the book provides a comprehensive analysis of the EU integration process and power shifts over the recent trade war and developments in the world. Due to its importance and excellent discussions, Professor Chaisse’s book is going to be consulted as a reference book on EU law and EU integration. -- Deniz Baran * Annales de la Faculté de Droit d’Istanbul *
This comprehensive and timely book takes the readers on an intriguing journey by successfully capturing the exciting anticipation of EU law … this book combines business relations, sustainability and future-oriented research in a comprehensive and persuasive way. For this very reason, it would not be wrong to express frankly that this book we have reviewed stands before us as a “must read” book for those who are interested in EU law and EU integration. -- Mustafa Serhat Kasikara * Law & Justice Review *
The variety of the topics covered and the overall clarity of presentation certainly make the work worthy of attention. -- Martino Zulberti * Diritto del Commercio Internazionale (Bloomsbury translation) *