Title:
The European Union and global governance : a handbook
Author:
Wunderlich, Jens-Uwe, 1971-
ISBN:
9781857435092
Publication Information:
London : Routledge, 2011.
Physical Description:
xx, 386 p. ; 25 cm.
Series:
Routledge international handbooks
Routledge international handbooks.
Contents:
Introduction / Jens-Uwe Wunderlich and David J. Bailey -- Part I: European Studies and Global Governance / 1. Obsolete if Obstinate? Transforming EU Studies in the Transnational Era / Alex Warleigh-Lack -- 2. When a Fusing Europe and a Globalizing World Meet? / Lee Miles -- 3. EU as an Emerging Global Actor / Bjorn Hettne -- 4. The European Union in the World: Critical Theories / David J. Bailey -- 5. European Integration, Global Governance and International Relations / Jens-Uwe Wunderlich -- Part II: Institutions -- 6. The European Commission: How the European Commission constructed EU Governance Policy and how it attempts to export it / David Spence -- 7. The European Parliament / Giacomo Benedetto -- 8. The Council: How the Member States agree on Europe's External Policies / Uwe Puetter -- 9. The European Council and the Presidency / Klaus Brummer -- 10. The European Court of Justice and External Relations: Internationalist Objectives or Integrationist Priorities? / Adam Cygan -- Part III: Policy and Issue Areas -- 11. Global Governance and the Common Foreign and Security Policy of the European Union / Alister Miskimmon -- 12. The EU and Global Environmental Governance / Magalie Bourblanc -- 13. The Common Commercial Policy and Global Economic Governance / Ferdi de Ville -- 14. Global Governance and the CAP / Wyn Grant -- 15. Development Policy: The EU as a Multilateral and Bilateral Donor / Maurizio Carbone -- 16. EU Accession Policy / An Schrijvers and Eline De Ridder -- 17. The 'European' 'Neighborhood' 'Policy': A Holistic Account -- Syuzanna Vasilyan -- 18. The EU and Conflict Transformation / Thomas Diez and Laurence Cooley
Part IV: The Global Multilevel Governance Complex and the EU -- 19. The EU, its Common Commercial Policy, and the World Trade Organization / Bart Kerremans -- 20. EU-UN Co-operation in Conflict and Development -- Vassiliki N. Koutrakou -- 21. The EU and Interregionalism / Fredrik Soderbaum -- 22. The EU and East Asia -- Julie Gilson -- 23. EU and Africa: Partnership, Governance and (Re)-evolving Relations / Mary Farrell -- 24. EU and Latin America / Clarissa Dri -- 25. The European Union, the United States and Global Governance / Michael Smith -- 26. European Union and Russia / Natalia Zaslavskaia -- 27. The EU and Eastern Europe / Ivaylo Gatev -- 28. The EU's Emerging Relations with Central Asia: a Test Case for EU Foreign Policy / Fabienne Bossuyt -- 29. The EU and the Mediterranean -- Michelle Pace -- 30. The EU and Subregional Co-operation / Martin Dangerfield -- 31. Civil Society in an Integrating Europe / Dawid Friedrich
Abstract:
The role of the European Union in global politics has been of growing interest over the past decade. The EU is a key player in global institutions such as the World Trade Organization (WTO) and NATO. It continues to construct an emerging identity and project its values and interests throughout contemporary international relations. The capacity of the EU to both formulate and realise its goals, however, remains contested. Some scholars claim the EU's 'soft power' attitude rivals that of the USA's 'hard power' approach to international relations. Others view the EU as insufficiently able to produce a co-ordinated position to project upon global politics. Regardless of the position taken within this debate, the EU's relationship with its external partners has an increasingly important impact upon economic, political and security concerns on an international level. Trade negotiations, military interventions, democracy promotion, international development and responses to the global economic crisis have all witnessed the EU playing a central role. This has seen the EU become both a major force in contemporary institutions of global governance and a template for supranational governance that might influence other attempts to construct regional and global institutions.
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