EU Foreign Relations Federalism. A comparison with the United States, Canada and Belgium. KU Leuven
Federal states and the EU as a federation of states face the problem of forging a coherent foreign policy for an internally differentiated polity. Traditionally, it was believed that federations should act at the international level as one unified actor. Recently federated entities are, however, granted an increasingly important role in external relations. This PhD thesis explores whether and, if yes, to which extent different federal systems ...