INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

International Relations



International Relations

Introduction

International law consists of rules that manage the relations of nations amongst one other. International Law, is commonly know as the Public International Law, accounts for the rights between deals with disagreements amongst private personals, natural or juridical several nations or nations and the inhabitant or issues of other nations. On the contrary, Private International Law appears out of situations having important relationships to more than one nation. Recently the difference amongst public and private international law is facing the situation of uncertainty. Issues of private international law may also bring in issues of public international law, and many matters of private international law have extensive importance for the international relations.

International Law takes account of the basic, typical concepts of law in national legal systems, status, property, responsibility, and tort. It also includes substantive law, procedure, process and remedies. International Law is rooted in acceptance by the nation states that comprise the system. Customary law and conventional law are primary sources of international law.

The European Union and the United States share common interests in developing coherent strategies in order to promote peace and stability, to create conditions for harmonious economic development in the wider world and to promote the stability of the international trade, financial and monetary systems, as well as the economic integration of countries in transition and developing countries.

The EU and the US have a common belief in democratic government, human rights and market economics, and they are bound by close security ties. Both sides share a common concern in handling effectively a wide variety of political and security issues across the globe. The EU and the US have to confront global challenges such as terrorist threats, menace to security and stability, weapons proliferation, drugs, organized crime and many other important issues.

Diplomacy in the Age of Terrorism

Both Bush senior and Clinton recognized the growing potential of the EU as a partner for the US and were keen to provide some structure to EU-US relations. But the structures established in 1990 and 1995 were never given the necessary unstinting political support on either side of the Atlantic to ensure success. The 1990 Transatlantic Declaration committed the US and EU to regular political consultations at all levels (biannual summits, ministerial and senior official as well as working group meetings).2

In 1995, the US and EU moved a stage further with the signing of the New Transatlantic Agenda (NTA) proposing joint action in four major fields.

promoting peace and stability, democracy and development around the world;

responding to global challenges;

contributing to the expansion of world trade and closer economic relations;

And building bridges across the Atlantic.

The Transatlantic Economic Partnership (TEP), which was launched in 1998 and works to open up markets and eliminate trade barriers between the transatlantic partners, is a visible manifestation of this new cooperation. But there has been no real substantive discussion at the highest political level, for example on threat perceptions, partly because of the inability on the EU side to speak with one voice on sensitive political, ...