Since the Treaty of Amsterdam, sustainable development is legally enshrined among the fundamental objectives of European integration, and the contributors to this volume bring a diversity of perspectives to bear on both the internal and external dimensions of the EU’s relationship with sustainable development. The diversity of views reflected in this book testifies to the politically sensitive, essentially contested nature of the concept. But it cannot be denied that sustainable development policies have become institutionalized in the EU and its Member States and, as such, constitute an important new subject of inquiry and debate for all those interested in the fate of the European project.
Marc Pallemaerts is a former senior research fellow of the Institute for European Studies and is now a senior fellow of the Institute for European Environmental Policy, an independent research center with offices in London and Brussels. He also teaches international and European environmental law at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. Dr. Albena Azmanova is lecturer in international relations at the University of Kent's Brussels School of International Studies, and director of its master's program in international political economy. She has been working as policy analyst for the European Commission and the European Parliament.
European Studies
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9789054872474 (9054872470) Pub Date: May 2006
ASP-VUB Press