The influence of international institutions on the EU
Subtitle: when multilateralism hits Brussels
By: edited by Oriol Costa, Knud Erik Jørgensen
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
ISBN-13: 9780230314481
Subjects: European Union; Influence; Decision making; Political planning; International agencies
Description: The contributors to the volume analyze the EU from a surprisingly rare perspective, namely by exploring how it is influenced by multilateral institutions. There has recently been a dramatic increase in interaction between the EU and multilateral institutions, yet this interaction has almost without exception been studied from the bottom-up perspective. This volume reverses the causal arrow and shows that international institutions shape EU policies and the policy-making process, as well as acting as a source of preferences and strategies for EU stances internationally. The impact is (under certain conditions) strong and rather frequently unintended and unexpected. Sometimes the influence goes as far as to foster small-scale processes of EU integration. Scholars with expertise in different areas have contributed to this endeavour, thus allowing the volume to cover a wide range of international institutions and their effects on the EU.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The influence of international institutions on the EU / Oriol Costa and Knud Erik Jørgensen; title: Less than you might think: the impact of WTO rules on EU policies / Alasdair Young; title: Playing into the hands of the Commission? accounting for the impact of international organizations on EU foreign policy: the case of the ILO / Marianne Riddervold and Helene Sjursen; title: The external institutional context matters: the EU in international negotiations / Tom Delreux ... [et al.]; title: The influence of international institutions on access to justice in environmental matters in the EU and its member states / Anne Wetzel; title: The influence of global internet governance institutions on the EU / George Christou and Seamus Simpson; title: Combating the financing of terrorism together? the influence of the United Nations on the European Union's financial sanctions / Sarah Léonard and Christian Kaunert; title: Linking up levels of governance: the agencies of the European Union and their interaction with international institutions / Martijn L.P. Groenleer; title: NATO's influence on the evolution of the European Union as a security actor / Joachim Koops; title: The influence of the Council of Europe on the European Union / Barbara Schumacher; title: How do international institutions influence the EU? / Xinyuan Dai and Gina Martønez; title: The top-down dimension of the relationship between the EU and international institutions / Robert Kissack.