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2015 Int'l Rev. L. 1 (2015)

handle is hein.journals/inrevla2015 and id is 1 raw text is: Faculty of Laws, University College London, United Kingdom *Email: daniel.seah.11@ucl.ac.uk http://dx.doi.org/ 10-5339/irl.2015.1 Submitted: 3 June 2014 Accepted: 16 October 2014 @ 2015 Seah, Licensee Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution license CC BY 4.0 which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. An nmIeNofCqrcudaton cjcjJg.H a103 ilall~ INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF LAW Research article The CFSP as an aspect of conducting foreign relations by the United Kingdom: With special reference to the Treaty of Amity & Cooperation in Southeast Asia Daniel Seah* ABSTRACT Since the Lisbon Treaty's entry into force in 2009, the Common & Foreign Security Policy (CFSP) retains its intergovernmental character, although its legal status is no longer separate from but part of a single European Union (EU) framework. With particular focus on the United Kingdom's practice as a EU member state, this article examines the potential pressures which bear on the interplay between: (i) the CFSP's intergovernmental character; and (ii) the CFSP's current legal status within a single EU framework that established a semblance of institutional coherence; and (iii) the implications for conducting the UK's foreign relations, a consequence of its status at international law as an independent sovereign state. The article argues that pressures arise for the UK because of its legal obligations under UK law, EU law and international law, which potentially interlock, as distinct sources of law, with consequences for the flexible conduct of British foreign relations. This argument is illustrated through the case study of accession by the UK and EU (of which the UK is a member state), two separate legal persons at international law, to the Treaty of Amity and Cooperation in Southeast Asia. Keywords: ASEAN, EU law, international law, CFSP, treaty, UK foreign relations