ABSTRACT

The European Union and Global Governance: A Handbook aims to analyse contemporary debates in European Studies in order to provide lessons for the development, design and normative evaluation of global governance. It brings together scholars of European studies and international relations, where much of the literature on regional and global governance is located, thereby providing interdisciplinary lessons from the study of European Union and its governance that can be used to re-evaluate processes of global governance. Each chapter examines methodological, theoretical or empirical discussions within European studies in order to draw insights for current developments in global governance.

chapter |10 pages

Introduction

part II|61 pages

Institutions

chapter 6|20 pages

The European Commission

How the European Commission constructed European Union governance policy and how it attempts to export it

chapter 7|10 pages

The European Parliament

chapter 8|10 pages

The Council

How the member states agree on Europe’s external policies

chapter 10|10 pages

The European Court of Justice and external relations

Internationalist objectives or integrationist priorities?

part III|77 pages

Policy and issue areas

chapter 15|9 pages

Development policy

The European Union as a multilateral and bilateral donor

chapter 17|10 pages

The ‘European’ ‘Neighbourhood’ ‘Policy’

A holistic account

part IV|134 pages

The global multilevel governance complex and the European Union

chapter 22|8 pages

The European Union and East Asia

chapter 23|11 pages

The European Union and Africa

Partnership, governance and (re-)evolving relations

chapter 26|11 pages

The European Union and Russia

chapter 28|10 pages

The European Union’s emerging relations with Central Asia

A test case for European Union foreign policy