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The EU's Turn to 'Strategic Autonomy'

其他書名	Leeway for Policy Action and Points of Conflict
出版	SSRN, 2022
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=bIzczwEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋In a world marked by intensifying geopolitical rivalries, supply chain vulnerabilities, and disruptive technological change, ensuring 'strategic autonomy' is now an avowed goal of numerous EU policy initiatives. This article seeks to facilitate an assessment of this 'policy turn' by developing a taxonomy of associated objectives and by illuminating points of conformance and conflict with EU and international law. The Treaties offer a robust legal basis for a stronger values-orientation in external relations, for policies designed to rebalance reciprocity in pursuit of geoeconomic ambition, and for the pursuit of technological leadership within the Treaty's level-playing field legal foundation. Yet there is a thin line to collisions with international (trade and investment) law, notably where value prioritization, technological preferences, or geopolitical concerns are tantamount to discrimination or invite protectionist policy choices. Employment of coercive tools in unilateral fashion alter the legal default of multilateralism and openness. Institutionally, strategic diversity within the Union hinders 'institutional autonomy', particularly where unanimity voting makes intergovernmentalism the predominant mode of cooperation.