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.
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