1st Edition

The European Union and Global Governance A Handbook

Edited By Dr Jens-Uwe Wunderlich, David J Bailey Copyright 2011
    408 Pages
    by Routledge

    408 Pages
    by Routledge

    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.

    This volume brings together a collection of leading EU scholars to provide a state-of-the-art overview covering these and other debates relating to the EU’s role in contemporary global governance. The Handbook is divided into four main sections:

    Part I: European studies and global governance – provides an overview and critical assessment of the leading theoretical approaches through which the EU’s role in global governance has been addressed within the literature.

    Part II: Institutions – examines the role played by the key EU institutions in pursuing a role for the EU in contemporary international relations.

    Part III: Policy and issue areas – explores developments within particular policy sectors, assessing the different impact that the EU has had in different issue areas, including foreign and security policy, environmental policy, common commercial policy, the Common Agricultural Policy, development policy, accession policy, the Neighbourhood Policy and conflict transformation.

    Part IV: The global multilevel governance complex and the EU – focuses on the relationship between the EU and the institutions, regions and countries with which it forms a global multilevel governance complex, including chapters on the EU’s relationship with the WTO, United Nations, East Asia, Africa and the USA.

    The editors are Jens-Uwe Wunderlich (Aston University) and David J. Bailey (University of Birmingham). Jens-Uwe Wunderlich’s research and teaching focuses on international relations theory, European integration and globalization and on comparative regionalism; he has recently published Regionalism, Globalisation and International Order–Europe and Southeast Asia (Ashgate) and A Dictionary of Globalization (Routledge, 2007). David Bailey has published on trends in European governance in the Journal of European Public Policy, Comparative European Politics, and Journal of European Social Policy.

    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 - Björn 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 Söderbaum

    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

    Biography

    Dr Jens-Uwe Wunderlich (Aston University, UK) (Edited by) , David J Bailey (Edited by)

    ‘This handbook is encyclopedic in its breadth and range … Each of the chapters is theoretically sensitive, and has depth, detail, and interpretive analysis sometimes lacking in the empirical tradition of EU studies. This study of the EU will be essential reading for years to come.’ - John Gaffney, Professor of Politics, Co-Director, Aston Centre for Europe, Aston University